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Ad Fraud: The Silent Revenue Killer
Fraud is a well-known threat to every online company. Because of that, nearly every company has some solution for handling transaction fraud, reducing chargebacks, and verifying customers. The biggest reason for this is because companies can see the effects of transaction fraud immediately and easily recognize the drain on their revenue. Ad...
Building FACT to Help Airlines Fight Fraud
The growth of online payments in the last two decades means that a vast amount of financial information, particularly payment card data, is stored on the Internet. Hackers can break into databases, download the payment card information and then sell it to buyers on the dark web. This stolen card data is...
SIM Swap Fraud: Don’t Be Its Next Victim
For many victims of SIM swap fraud, the first time they learn about the attack is in the hours after their life has been changed forever. It’s an all too common story, the signal bars disappear from your mobile phone, you call the phone number – it rings, but it’s not your...
Online Fraud Prevention Requires End-to-End Application Integrity
Online fraud is on the rise across all industries. For example, in 2017 banking trojans increased 77% year over year and the figures for 2018 already show similar trends. It is expected that malware-based attacks will continue to increase with the wider adoption of digital payments and application based mobile banking. Today...
Auto Lending Fraud: The Lies People Tell on Applications
Financing a car is easy. You pick out your brand-new car. You walk into the finance manager’s office. You give your name, address, social security number and a few other pieces of personal information and you can walk out of the auto dealership with keys to that car, sometimes with little or...
ATO Attacks: What They Are and How to Foil Them
It’s more important than ever for merchants to make sure their customers are returning to make repeat purchases as the e-commerce landscape becomes more saturated. One of the best means for improving customer loyalty is to offer accounts for your online store which customers can use to check out faster, get tailored...
How Blockchain Could Disrupt Online Fraud Prevention
People are always talking about how blockchain will change the world and disrupt industries. One of the industries that doesn’t get much attention in the TED talks and blog posts is e-commerce fraud prevention. The core feature of blockchain is the distributed ledger. This ledger records transactions in a database that can...
How to Avoid ICO Fraud with Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency investors are participating in record numbers in initial coin offerings (ICOs) even though there are still not many uses for cryptocurrencies today within the overall retail and banking space. This article will list the different types of tokens one can purchase as well as the scams/frauds sometimes involved in an ICO....
What’s in Your Cryptocurrency Wallet? Cybercriminals Want to Know!
Big concerns exist around account takeover (ATO) at digital cryptocurrency exchanges—and no wonder. By its very nature, it is nearly impossible to trace who owns cryptocurrency funds. Digital currency wallets are also a very popular target for cyber thieves because of the irreversibility of digital currency transactions, making wallet security a top...
First Fraud Data Exchange for Auto Industry Launches
PointPredictive formally launched today, May 30, a fraud data exchange for auto lenders at the Auto Lending Fraud Consortium Roundtable in Fort Worth, Texas. Auto lenders will be able to use the Fraud Data Exchange as a repository for sharing data from confirmed fraudulent auto-loan applications. The service is designed to detect...