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Major Retailers Brace For Gift Card Fraud

PYMNTS

With the new policies, changes include lowering the transaction limits on the sale of store-branded gift cards. The news comes as a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report early this year claimed that fraudsters are increasingly requesting to be paid with gift cards.

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Fighting Scams and Authorized Push Payment Fraud in the US

FICO

For the P2P app Zelle specifically, banks recently stated that the vast majority of transactions “had no associated reports of fraud or scams” and that other P2P apps have 3-6x more disputed transactions in comparison. The reality is that the US is reaching a tipping point for P2P scams. million from debit card payments, and $82.2