PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an uptick in digital fraud and identity theft, with 18,235 pandemic-related fraud reports received by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since the beginning of the year. Deep Dive: Enlisting AI And Biometrics In Response To Widespread Digital Identity Theft.

Identity Theft

PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that new Medicare cards will be mailed out starting next month. The new cards are being issued to protect consumers from identity theft. Consumers can check the schedule to find out when they may be receiving their card.

FTC

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

Among the key subjects of complaints that washed over the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network last year included debt collection, identity theft and scams related to impostors. The identity theft designation has been the top complaint category for the past 15 years, said the FTC.

FTC

PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2020

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has recorded record-high numbers of complaints every month since the pandemic hit in mid-March, according to a press release from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund’s consumer campaign director, according to the release. PIRG Education Fund. PIRG Education Fund, according to the release.

CFPB

FICO

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Fraud has spiked during the pandemic , with criminals upping their game as consumers swing into holiday shopping mode. The fraud problem has gone viral - consumers have filed more than 130,000 reports of fraud to the FTC and have lost $182 million to these activities during the pandemic. Like COVID, Fraud Is Rampant.

Identity Theft

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

But when seniors do become financial victims, they typically take a bigger hit than millennials do, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a press release. Overall, the FTC is seeing that consumers are losing more money due to fraud in 2017 than 2016.

Scams

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The link then takes the victim to an imitation IRS site that harvests personal and financial details, including consumers’ bank account information. Criminals are relentlessly using COVID-19 and economic impact payments as cover to try to trick taxpayers out of their money or identities,” IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a statement.

Scams

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Discussions about ID theft often involve hackers and cyberattacks gaining access to consumer and payment data. 18) shows how eCommerce can enable other forms of ID theft. A consumer could buy a fake stub for as little as $40; a consumer would need at least $150 for a fake tax return. But action from the U.S.

FTC

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2017

According to John Krebs, manager of the identity theft program at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the situation between the good guys who are trying to protect the systems and the bad guys who are trying to break into and exploit them will always be very asymmetrical. Those are much harder to resolve from the consumer end.”.

Identity Theft

National Merchants Association

AUGUST 5, 2022

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), credit card fraud is the second-most prevalent type of identity theft. The FTC received more than 88,000 credit card fraud reports in 2021. Now that consumers have gotten used to buying products online, many will continue following the habit.

Credit Cards

National Merchants Association

AUGUST 5, 2022

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), credit card fraud is the second-most prevalent type of identity theft. The FTC received more than 88,000 credit card fraud reports in 2021. Now that consumers have gotten used to buying products online, many will continue following the habit. However, LOLA POS.

Transactions

National Merchants Association

AUGUST 5, 2022

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), credit card fraud is the second-most prevalent type of identity theft. The FTC received more than 88,000 credit card fraud reports in 2021. Now that consumers have gotten used to buying products online, many will continue following the habit.

Transactions

National Merchants Association

AUGUST 5, 2022

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), credit card fraud is the second-most prevalent type of identity theft. The FTC received more than 88,000 credit card fraud reports in 2021. Now that consumers have gotten used to buying products online, many will continue following the habit.

Credit Cards

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

From counterfeiting to identity theft to phishing attacks, digital fraud takes many forms — and online shopping continues to make consumers and merchants vulnerable to such attacks. According to a new LexisNexis study , overall retail fraud attempts doubled year-over-year and tripled since 2017.

Online and Mobile Banking

FICO

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Fraudsters are opportunistic, and lately they are (unfortunately) finding a lot of success by targeting consumers directly. Consumers are not as worried about APP fraud and scams as they are for other types of fraud, but awareness is growing. In the UK, it accounted for £249 million in consumer losses for the first half of 2022.

Scams

FICO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A report released by the FTC in February 2022 indicates a 71% increase in fraud in 2021, which cost consumers roughly $5.8 million consumer fraud and 1.4 million identity theft reports filed in 2021, many of which relate back to banks and lenders. These statistics are based on roughly 2.8

Online and Mobile Banking

FICO

APRIL 20, 2023

According to FICO’s latest survey of consumers from 14 countries around the globe, 90% of all consumers have sent a real-time payment, and at least 95% of consumers have used real-time payments in India , Indonesia , the Philippines , and Brazil. Throughout the countries we surveyed, RTP usage shows no signs of slowing.

Real Time Payments

National Merchants Association

AUGUST 5, 2022

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), credit card fraud is the second-most prevalent type of identity theft. The FTC received more than 88,000 credit card fraud reports in 2021. Now that consumers have gotten used to buying products online, many will continue following the habit.

Credit Cards

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

SocialCatfish.com, the identity verification nonprofit, reported U.S. losses from COVID-19 fraud and ID theft have reached nearly $100 million since the pandemic emerged in March, according to Reuters. million to date, according to the FTC. Those cases have cost victims a total of $97.5

FTC

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

After all, your very name, address, telephone number, maiden name and so on are all ticking time bombs, putting you at risk for identity theft. The numbers are sobering, as always: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found that account takeover fraud is on the rise.

Security

PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported in a press release that it has received over 7,800 complaints from consumers all relating to the coronavirus pandemic, twice the number it received just a week ago. The FTC will regularly make the number of coronavirus-related complaints public on its Explore Data page.

FTC

FICO

AUGUST 12, 2019

As I’ve blogged about previously, synthetic identity fraud is rampant , and fraudsters are growing ever-more sophisticated. Industry estimates attribute around 80% of credit card fraud losses to synthetic identity fraud and child identity theft. (On Child identity fraud is a combination of both, as described below.).

Identity Theft