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Fraud-Fighter 2.0: Looking for the Next Big Fraud Prevention Startup
One of the reasons we started About-Fraud was to make sense of the many different fraud solutions emerging in the market. In that spirit, we're delighted to launch our inaugural "Fraud Fighter 2.0" program. The program is designed to raise awareness for small, burgeoning Start-ups in the fraud prevention space. We want...
How to Secure Business from Account Takeover Fraud
The massive security breach in Twitter forced businesses and individuals to review their account takeover prevention methods and security measures. On Wednesday, July 15, about 130 of verified Twitter accounts were hacked and were further used in the cryptocurrency-related scam scheme. An early investigation showed the presence of social engineering fraud attack on...
Fraud Solution Provider Infographic
It's one of the most challenging tasks out there. Organizing and grouping the top Fraud Solution Providers on one page... and yet we took our crack at it! Below you will find all the Fraud Solution Providers currently on the About-Fraud Platform, along with some high level categorizations. Click the image to...
What Can We Learn from UK Finance’s Latest Fraud Report?
UK Finance recently released its "Fraud - the Facts 2020" report, which details the latest fraud statistics from the UK banking industry, including categorised insights into the overall amount of UK banking fraud losses. This report is very useful when trying to understand the real impact of fraud to consumers, businesses and...
When Good Customers Turn to Fraud
It seems pretty straightforward… there are people who don't commit fraud - your good customers - and people who commit fraud - the ones you set your systems up to detect. However, if you work in fraud prevention you know that line often becomes quite blurred. First party fraud is very common,...
2020 Priorities: Pre-Authorization Risk Screening, CCPA & More!
The record number of data breaches in 2019 serves as a great reminder of why new advances in digital identity verification (DIDV) are increasingly critical. However, I didn’t close out the year thinking about the exceptionally high occurrence in data breach rates. Instead, I chose to focus on the hard-won battles businesses have fought...
Fraud Screening for Retailers: Prepare for Volume Spikes
Retailers spend all year getting their product selection, inventory, logistics and marketing ready for year-end peak sales seasons, but they often don’t adjust their fraud screening tools for sales peaks. Surprisingly, this oversight may not lead to more fraud but to more false declines. Why would otherwise dependable fraud screening rules and...
Intro to Synthetic ID's From a Former FBI Fraud Fighter
Basics & Background In layman’s terms, a synthetic ID is created when a fraudster takes a real or fake social security number (SSN), builds a completely false persona around it (including credit tradelines, ID cards, the works), and uses the fake persona to obtain credit and cash, then disappears… leaving the financial...
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...