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Wanna-be “influencers” targeted Scammers are often tripped up by the language gap Detecting patterns stops fraud The Action 10 News Troubleshooter Series took a look at a popular scam that “fishes” for potential influencers by offering to pay them in return for allowing a “decal wrap” advertising a popular energy drink on their automobile. In…
A commentary at Digitaltransactions.net by Peter Jensen, chief executive of RocketFuel Blockchain Inc., explores the reasons the Millennial generation are not only unintimidated by cryptocurrency, but also prefer it as the digital payment of choice: As the generation that grew up during the financial crisis and the expansion of the Internet, Millennials realized the shortcomings…
Scammers are opportunists COVID relief checks provided a “porthole” to scams Consumers need reminders to stay vigilant even in challenging times It is no surprise to note that scammers are, first and foremost, opportunists. When the United States government began issuing several rounds of stimulus checks, they were right there with complicated — and not-so-complicated…
Kevin Levitt, Global Business Development, Financial Services, NVIDIA, has an excellent post at Finextra.com examining the prevalence — and importance — of Artificial Intelligence adoption in fintechs, investment firms, and consumer banks.
PaymentsJournal offers a podcast wherein Patricia Rojas, Senior Manager Data Scientist at ACI Worldwide, and Tim Sloane, VP of Payments Innovation at Mercator Advisory Group discuss the ways Machine Learning (ML) has become a vital component in the fight against fraud — particularly during the pandemic, when fraud rates have escalated.
In case you missed it, over the past month, we have published incredible content on our OrboNation Blog and Modernizing Omnichannel Check Fraud Detection. Review the latest OrboNation Newsletter online or via PDF download.
Wal-Mart — already equipped with its own credit and debit/prepaid cards — has in recent months partnered with Ribbit Capital to start a fintech. Payments Journal reports that they are also looking at more financial services offerings via a branded all-purpose mobile app. Wal-Mart certainly has the audience to compete with banks. As reported in Barron’s:
Check scammers are well organized A group of online fraud-fighters is helping to ID the bad guys FI’s need to maintain cutting edge fraud detection to protect customers What if you could see a multi-victim, megabucks scam unfold right in front of your eyes? An online fraud fighter known as “Brianna Ware” (“B. Ware” for…
No, this is not a scene from a sci-fi action movie starring the immortal Arnold Schwarzenegger. As far as we know, there is no “Skynet” that has developed an artificial intelligence with the motive of eradicating all human life.
There is no doubt that the pandemic has created opportunities for fraudsters. Atlas VPN reports that cybercrime cost the world more than $1 trillion in 2020, which works out to around 1% of global GDP. Access via online “pirating” to information like email addresses and social security numbers creates opportunities for phishing and other attacks.