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Swedish Government and Banker’s Association Announce Plans to Stop Scams

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As I’ve previously blogged , the state of scams in Sweden has been a hot topic in the media over the past few months, not least due to a show on Swedish SVT where an investigative journalist followed a criminal gang who used social engineering to convince elderly people to transfer their savings through a hybrid smishing and vishing campaign.

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Fraud Scams Skyrocket, But People Worry More About Pickpockets

FICO

That threat is fraud scams – tactics and techniques that fraudsters are using to trick people into giving away their money. The financial impact of scams is staggering indeed: in the UK alone, authorised push payment (APP) scams accounted for £479 million in gross losses in 2020. Fortunately, it’s not all gloom and doom.

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Fraud Scams Skyrocket, But Consumers Are More Concerned About Pickpockets

FICO

That threat is fraud scams – tactics and techniques that fraudsters are using to trick people into giving away their money. The financial impact of scams is staggering indeed: in the UK alone, authorised push payment (APP) scams accounted for £479 million in gross losses in 2020. Fortunately, it’s not all gloom and doom.

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To Stop Scams, It’s Time to Add Sensible Friction to Easy Money

FICO

Home Blog Feed test To Stop Scams, It’s Time to Add Sensible Friction to Easy Money The convenience and speed of real-time payments makes it easy for fraudsters to scam individuals. Fraudsters love this change and have been scamming consumers and businesses at full speed with all sorts of sneaky, dirty tricks.

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US Card Skimming Grew Nearly 5x in 2022, New FICO Data Shows

FICO

While skimming events can impact hundreds of unknowing individuals, criminals will also continue to target consumers through phishing, smishing, scams, and other tactics to obtain cardholder data that can be used for card-not-present fraud. See all Posts chevron_left Blog Home expand_less Back To Top Related posts U.S.

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How Machine Learning Fights “Hypnofraud”

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Phishing, Smishing, Hypnofraud and More. Fraudsters use a range of tactics to commit social engineering; email (phishing) and text message (smishing) are time-tested winners. Authorized push payment scams manipulate the account holder into making the payment to an account controlled by fraudster—hence the term ‘’.