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Unveiling digital fraud: Insights into scam trends and prevention in the UK payment sector

The Payments Association

Other Channels Exploited Email services and search engines are targeted via phishing emails and fraudulent ads, redirecting victims to fake websites or impersonated organisations. Frequently used for high-value impersonation fraud, with scammers posing as trusted entities like banks or government officials. million in losses.

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The state of fraud in 2024: Key mid-year takeaways

The Payments Association

It highlights the rising trends in fraud and stresses the need for payment leaders to implement stronger prevention strategies and collaborations. Payment leaders must focus on fraud prevention, collaboration with tech and telecom sectors, and public education to mitigate future risks. What’s next?

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Financial Technology Association Sets Out to Tackle Holiday Shopping Fraud With ‘Smarter Than Scams’

The Fintech Times

It also brings awareness to the most common scams consumers face during the holiday season. For example, charity, gift card, imposter, invoicing, pet deposit, phishing, and romance scams. We leverage industry-leading fraud prevention and detection models, strategies, and tools to proactively identify and stop bad actors.

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How Advanced Technology is Driving Authorized Push Payment Fraud

Seon

Often, the fraudsters enter through impersonation, a romance scam or another type of social engineering fraud scam. Still, the result is the same: a victim-initiated money transfer resulting in money in an account owned by a fraudster.