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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The number of identity fraud victims rose 16 percent in 2016, marking the highest level since Javelin Strategy & Research began tracking the trend in 2003. According to the research, during 2016 there was a resurgence in existing card fraud, which saw an increase of 40 percent in card-not-present fraud.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Consumer card transactions will overtake cash transactions for the first time in 2016, according to global research firm Euromonitor International. Cash is expensive to manage and is extensively used in the underworld.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even the mightiest of tech firms are not immune to invoice fraud. Engadget reported that Jeff Tran, Microsoft ’s former director of sports marketing and alliances, was charged with five counts of wire fraud. Wire fraud has a sentence of up to 20 years’ imprisonment. Fraud On The Rise. Payments Fraud No Cakewalk.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Fraud continues to increase in many areas, despite extensive attempts to bring it to heel. Retail fraud attempts have doubled year over year, for example, while account takeover (ATO) fraud losses recently hit $14.7 billion , and phishing attacks now comprise 30 percent of all fraud attempts. billion since 2016.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

While commercial card innovation certainly accelerated in 2018, progress can always continue. Morgan Managing Director and Head of Commercial Card Product Management Naney Pandit says should be a focus this year is in mobilizing the corporate card. One area of development that J.P. Following The Consumer Trend.

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JUNE 19, 2017

The company believes that exposure of cardholder data that could be used to create counterfeit cards – including names, addresses, emails and Social Security numbers – was limited, but some credit card numbers may have been compromised. The breach may affect users who paid via credit card at affected Buckle store locations between Oct.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The tools we use to detect, score and prevent fraud — particularly card-not-present fraud in digital transactions — have improved exponentially in the last half-decade. As of today, 85 percent to 95 percent of synthetic fraud identities are easily slipping past risk detection systems that are failing to flag them.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Authorities allege that over a period of years, Wells Fargo allegedly opened new credit cards and other accounts without permission for existing customers with different accounts, so as to meet “cross-sales” targets. In 2016, Stumpf announced his resignation as chairman and chief executive of Well Fargo in the scandal’s wake.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

1) that a probe by international auditors is underway, examining a fraud that could be $200 million in scope at Aegean Marine Petroleum Network , tied to shell companies that ostensibly did business with the shipping fuel firm. Of that number, 59 were tied to gift cards, memberships, IT equipment and furniture. A Bit Of Victory.

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JULY 15, 2019

In Australia, a new report shows just how widespread internal fraud in the Commonwealth, aimed at government agencies, has become. This past week it was reported that, per an investigation by the Australian Institute of Criminology, such fraud amounted to $42 million over the past year. Grayson Jr., owner of Zealcon Corp.,

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JANUARY 17, 2020

An uptick in check fraud has financial institutions considering whether they should update methods and stop using checks, according to a report Wednesday (Jan. Check fraud, or the attempt to perpetrate it, has gone up from $8.5 billion in 2016 to $15.1 Also, it makes up 60 percent of all attempted fraud against U.S.

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JULY 5, 2017

Fraud is like gluten. Most organizations have resigned themselves to the fact that, despite their defenses, fraud is just a part of doing business. But fraud costs an average of 7.5 percent of revenue, and the numbers for e-tailers — who never handle a physical payment card — are much higher.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

Shanmugaratnam, 54, the owner of Citadelle Corporate Services, a corporate management services company at the heart of an investigation, is the first person outside of Wirecard to be linked to the suspected fraud at the disgraced German payments company. million euros ($209 million) at the end of 2016. million euros ($169.5

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Hackers who used to amuse themselves stealing credit cards have raised the level of their identity theft game such that 2017 was a record year — 16.7 million Americans were victimized last year, a jump of eight percent from 2016. That fraud run saw $16.8 Who says you can’t teach an old criminal new tricks? They’re smarter now.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Telematics company Airmax says fleet card fraud will be “a thing of the past” thanks to technology. We firmly believe that the misuse of company fuel cards and exaggerated mileage claims are set to become a thing of the past,” said Airmax Remote Managing Director Richard Perham in a statement.

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JUNE 5, 2017

billion EMV cards in circulation worldwide as of the end of 2016. billion cards over the last 12 months. percent of all card-present transactions globally were handled with EMV tech — a 35.8 and Asia demonstrated notable increases as they continued migrating card-present based payments to EMV chip technology.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Today’s coverage includes the latest developments in fraud, along with Volkswagen’s eCommerce plans. Fraudsters Prize Payment Via iTunes, Walmart Gift Cards. Losses due to this type of fraud reached $40 million in 2017, an increase from $20 million in 2015 and $27 million in 2016. Volkswagen Eyes eCommerce Sales.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Australian government agencies are reportedly plagued by company card fraud and misuse, according to new analysis from media company Fairfax Media. The ABS had 156 cases of inappropriate spend on its cards, Fairfax found, valuing more than $43,000 in misspend. Reports in the Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday (Oct.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Bank heists and data breaches saw no shortage in 2016, and corporates large and small could no longer avoid the risk of a cyberattack. The movement to attack small to medium-sized businesses will continue to increase in 2017, with about half of small businesses experiencing a security incident in 2016. Simply put: Crooks love checks.

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MARCH 10, 2017

On the other hand, around that same time the IRS released data showing that phishing and malware incidents in the 2016 tax season increased by 400 percent. In response, the external digital risk management team recently released its research assessing dark web and criminal chatter related to tax fraud so far this year.

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JULY 21, 2017

If a data breach is a sprint — where a fraudster grabs as much data as he or she can, as quickly as possible, in an effort to maximize ill-gotten gains — the fight against fraud is a marathon. Fraud varies country to country, region to region. Europe may offer a tell on the fraud to come. A marathon that never ends.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

antitrust regulators are investigating Visa and Mastercard about their debit card policies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Nov. The inquiry could spell fresh regulatory trouble for the world’s two largest payments processors, which settled a protracted European Union antitrust probe in April this year over card fees.

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JULY 1, 2019

In payments fraud, it pays — literally — to change up the game a bit. The report shows the use of malicious emails, rather than attachments, is on the rise — which darkreading.com said comes along with new variants of impersonation fraud. The aim is to steal credentials or credit card data. The data across a sample set of 1.3

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MAY 26, 2016

Million | The number of chip-active merchant locations as of April 30, 2016. issued, MasterCard-branded chip-enabled consumer credit cards. 39 | The percentage by which counterfeit card fraud basis points at EMV-enabled merchants dropped between January 2015 and January 2016. 1 deadline.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These three main segments of the Fleet Solution are said to provide better control over operations and increased protection against fraud. billion in 2016 and is projected to grow at a rate of 7.6 Shell employs 8,500 people in India and retails fuel in six states. . Shell employs 8,500 people in India and retails fuel in six states. .

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MARCH 30, 2017

The good news about EMV is that it has drastically dropped the instance for cloned-card fraud that was far more endemic in the mag stripe era. The not as good news is that fraudsters were not discouraged — they simply switched their focus to card-not-present fraud online, according to Experian.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Maeder, co-founder of the Loyalty Fraud Prevention Association , a group that offers resources, information and best practices to companies with loyalty programs, digital fraudsters have been using account takeovers (ATOs) to target these offerings. The Rising Tide Of Rewards Fraud. According to Peter R. billion worldwide.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

in a settlement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) due to a cyberattack at the lender in 2016. We are very sorry for the impact that this fraud attack had on our customers. I apologize to our customers for the inconvenience caused in 2016.”. Tesco Bank agreed on Monday (Oct. 1) to pay £16.4m

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Software developer and Ukrainian native Volodymyr Kvashuk, 25, from Renton, Washington, worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, and was tasked with testing Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. He took advantage of that access to steal currency stored value (CSV) such as digital gift cards that he then resold on the internet. .

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Consider the fact that in Mexico it can take four to six months to open a business account — and as much as a year to get access to a debit card. As Poovala told Webster: “We had to get a debit card by actually creating our own startup. It’s been 20 months, and we tried to get a debit card from some of the largest banks.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

As we noted in the recent Digital Banking Tracker, the CNP fraud has taken a leg down in favor of fraud that looks to snag credit card numbers. They took the details and applied for credit cards. Check Fraud, Too. She also submitted a false tax return in 2016, omitting those funds as income.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

A New York man, 39-year-old Bogdan Rusu, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on charges of using credit card skimming tactics to steal $390,141 from various New Jersey banks, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) report. From there, they used the information to steal customers’ money from their accounts.

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NCR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

One year on from the launch of EMV chip technology for payment cards in the US, the signs are positive as far as tackling fraud is concerned. Mastercard – the ‘M’ in ‘EMV’ – released figures showing a significant fall in the cost of counterfeit card fraud for US retailers who have adopted EMV.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Most people never dream that identity fraud could happen to them in their lifetime. Research firm Javelin Strategy & Research just released its 2017 Identity Fraud Survey, showing that it found a 16 percent increase in identity fraud victims for the year 2016. 31 percent | Increase in fraud incident occurrences.

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MAY 6, 2019

Launched in 2016, the gov.uk website initially only accepted payments from credit and debit cards. Allowing people to pay for government services through Apple Pay and Google Pay means they won’t have to enter their credit or debit card information when making payments,” said Till Wirth, lead product manager of gov.uk

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Just when payment card data seemed somewhat protected by EMV technology, hackers have found yet another way to steal information and gain access to PINs. As Datablink CEO Alex Cagnoni pointed out, card cloning devices are not something new; however, with the use of a chip, the attack has become more complex but still quite effective.

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JUNE 22, 2017

There’s another way, though, in which the fear of fraud bears down on the enterprise. A new report from Vesta Corporation finds fraud positions itself in the way of innovation and growth, even compliance. to understand how payments fraud is limiting corporates’ path to success. percent increase from 2016.

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