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How Account Takeovers Complicate the Battle to Control Fraud on Mobile Wallets

Issuers contending with payment card fraud will have to factor in mobile wallets, especially as the battle to thwart account takeovers intensifies. A majority of issuers—56%—said they cannot further reduce account takeovers without hurting the customer experience, according to a card-issuer fraud study released recently by LexisNexis Risk Solutions and …

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POS Fraud Slipping, but Watch Out for Account Takeovers and Online Fraud: Report

Point-of-sale payment card fraud will be easing off thanks largely to the introduction of EMV chip card payments to the United States in the next few years. But fraudsters, according to a new report from Javelin Strategy & Research, will be back in stores armed with cards using stolen credentials …

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Eye on Security: Account Takeovers And PayPal’s New ‘Bug Bounty’

A recent survey of financial institutions and service providers shows that while attempted takeovers of financial accounts by computer hackers and thieves increased last year, the percentage of successful takeovers dropped. Meanwhile, PayPal Inc. announced a program to pay security researchers for finding flaws in its system. In its second …

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Account Takeover Fraud Starts to Plague Businesses, AFP Study Shows

Checks caused most of the losses suffered by businesses victimized by payment fraud in 2010, which is no surprise. Businesses, however, are now falling victim to newer types of fraud, particularly account takeovers, that fraudsters have used against consumers in recent years, according to the Association for Financial Professionals’ latest …

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Behavioral Solutions Arrive to Fight a Fast-Rising Plague of Account-Takeover Losses

With massive data breaches hitting the headlines and account-takeover fraud booming, payments players are scrambling for solutions. One possibility is so-called behavioral biometrics, a science that tries to detect imposters’ fraudulent activity in real time by comparing their online behavior with the known patterns of a genuine user. The latest …

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The Move to Digital Payments And Accounts Carries Risk for Businesses, Report Says

As more consumer and business activity, let alone shopping, migrates to digital channels, the potential for additional risk increases. A new white paper from Giact Systems LLC outlines where some of the risk may be emerging. The Allen, Texas-based payments and identity-fraud prevention firm said undetected fraud can erode consumer …

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Partnerships Will Fuel the Tablet Takeover

Making mobile POS work seamlessly for merchants of all sizes is a daunting job, one best tackled by partnering with multiple specialists, says Paul Rasori. A recent IHL report projects significant growth in the tablet point-of-sale market through 2019, upwards of a 27% compound annual growth rate. To those of …

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Takeover Buzz Subsides As Ingenico Rejects a $1.9 Billion Bid

It’s all over but the shouting, at least for now. France’s Ingenico S.A., which sells point-of-sale terminals in North America and elsewhere around the world, on Sunday rejected a suitor that had offered $1.9 billion for the company. Bloomberg had reported on Friday that the suitor was Danaher Corp., Washington, …

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Synthetic Identity Tops the Hit Parade of Tactics To Commit Digital Fraud, TransUnion Finds

Synthetic identity fraud has become the fastest growing form of digital fraud, totaling $3.1 billion in 2023, up from $1.9 million in 2020, a 63% increase, according to TransUnion LLC’s 2024 State of Omnichannel Fraud Report. Criminals are using synthetic identities, which are created from a combination of real and …

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Financial Services Fraud Is up 39% from 2019, Says a TransUnion Report

Fraud at call centers operated by financial services organizations increased 39% from 2019 to 2022, according to new data from TransUnion LLC. That was the third-largest increase among sectors, surpassed only by travel and leisure and logistics, finds the TransUnion “2023 State of Omnichannel Fraud Report.” The report is based …

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