It’s a sobering condition of today’s payments industry that fraud is a persistent, pervasive, and unwelcome counterpart to legitimate transaction activity. Testifying to that is that 76% of U.S.

Scammers use fake NFC readers to charge your credit card or phone in crowded places without you noticing. Prote ...

In 1922, poet T.S. Eliot wrote the oft-quoted line “April is the cruelest month.” I don’t believe he was considering fraud and scams, but these current criminal activities add meaning ...

A barely noticeable charge showing up on your bank statement could be the first sign of a much bigger problem, one that can quietly spiral into serious financial loss. Consumers across the US are ...

Bitcoin transfers are public, but that doesn’t mean they’re simple to read. A wallet address by itself says very little. What matters is the history behind it: where coins came from, how they moved, ...

Arizona residents lost $177 million to cryptocurrency fraud in 2024, leading to new state "guardrails" for Bitcoin ATMs. House Bill 2387 now mandates daily transaction limits and requires ATM ...

A Madison woman received a voicemail claiming to be from Walmart's fraud prevention department, alerting her to a suspicious ...

Many fraud programs still centre transaction monitoring, but attackers can gain a meaningful advantage earlier, at account creation and the initial application stage. Fraud risk often enters at remote ...

Scam Watch Pilipinas alerts the public to a “fake rider” scam involving bookings on Lalamove, following an attempted incident ...

Fraud prevention is often described as a data problem, a tooling problem, or a workflow problem. But underneath those layers, ...

RBI is also proposing that senior citizens appoint a ‘trusted person’ who will act as another layer of authentication for transactions above ₹50,000.