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Fraudsters are on a Feeding Frenzy

With plenty of stolen data and incredible technology available on the dark web, even the greenest of criminals can fool traditional identity verification and risk-screening

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.

SEEK Technology: When You Have the Need for Speed

“I feel the need – the need for speed,” Tom Cruise’s Maverick famously said in “Top Gun.” But while he was referring to piloting a

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

How Credit Unions Can Keep a Step Ahead of Fraudsters

In a recent article for Credit Union Times, Adam Elliott, Founder and President of Kevari writes, “While it is true that fraudsters have upped their

Stopping Digital Identity Fraud Requires a Multi-layered Detection Approach

It’s an age-old story: If burglars find your front door deadbolted, they’re going to look for an unlocked window. Just like brick-and-mortar criminals, identity thieves

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

Account takeover schemes are rarely limited to physical address alone

When the Federal Trade Commission made a public request for comment regarding the 2007 Red Flags Rule, the American Bankers Association and Attorneys General from

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