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Fraudulent Phone Number Changes: A Growing Problem

Fraudsters are good at adapting. When banks started calling or texting their customers to verify the legitimacy of out-of-pattern account activity, like big money transfers,

Visualization Becoming More Important in Understanding Organized Fraud

While graph theory applications have been in the market for many years, they are gaining popularity because fraud rings are larger, more complex, and more

Could Email Be the Fraudster’s Achilles Heel?

Fraudsters can open dozens of fraudulent accounts per day while sitting on a beach in Bermuda.

Address Changes: The Pitfalls of Paper Processes

Whether driven by compliance policy, fraud policy, or some combination of both – financial institutions that still rely on notification letters and signature forms to

Digital Account Opening Requires a Leading-Edge Fraud Defense

Last month, an enterprise director of fraud for a large regional bank told me 5% of his new accounts were being opened online. He asked

Could New USPS Service Standards Affect Account Takeover Rates?

Only time will tell how or whether the new USPS standards will impact account takeover rates.

Opportunistic Identity Thieves Preyed on the Dead. Here’s What Needs to Change.

It’s a story that shocked even the most grizzled fraud fighters: The Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office filed charges against four criminals who stole the identities

Insight on the Role of Phones in Account Takeover

Jack Sundstrom, chief product and marketing officer for Kevari, wrote an article for Credit Union Times called, “Hanging Up on Phone-Change Fraud,” stressing the need

Robot Fraud: How Botnets are Powering ATO

Today, thousands of botnets – connected servers of scripted software robots – can perform what used to require hundreds of hours of manual work in just a few seconds. The results are staggering — both for banks and their customers.

Javelin’s Identity Fraud Study Highlights Scams That Let Criminals Capitalize on Stolen Information

Financial services companies need to be prepared for a new tidal wave of stolen PII and credentials. Now more than ever, they must have powerful controls in place to prevent account takeover and new-account fraud. Institutions that aren’t well protected risk losing money, customers, and their reputations.

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