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Credit card fraud is one of the most common types of identity fraud. Its prevalence rose significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, with fraudulent credit card applications up 17 percent in the first month of the pandemic alone. And this has […]
Fraud
Over the past two decades, economic downturns – most notably the Great Recession from 2007-9 – have foreshadowed a rise in financial crime. Against this backdrop, the threat of synthetic identity fraud has become a growing issue, with Forbes projecting […]
On May 16, 2023, UK Finance published its 2022 Annual Fraud Report detailing the extent of fraud in the country’s payments industry. The paper revealed that more than £1.2 billion was stolen by criminals through authorized and unauthorized fraud in […]
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has announced the imminent introduction of a cross-industry code that will hold banks, telcos, and social media platforms responsible for scam safety and make them liable to reimburse people who lose money through […]
By tailoring screening to their risk-based approach and safely whitelisting false alerts at onboarding, Holvi has cut the time they spend remediating false positives in half.
On May 3, 2023, the UK Government published its new fraud strategy, setting out over 50 measures to reduce fraud and cybercrime by 10 percent by 2025. The Home Office said the strategy would “establish a coordinated response from the […]
On May 3, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced defendant Leroy Holmes to five years in federal prison for his connection to a counterfeit card encoding scam that resulted in the fraudulent creation of nearly 600 credit cards, debit […]
On May 2, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced defendant Michael Ansezell Tolliver to ten years in prison for his connection to a COVID-19 fraud scheme that resulted in him obtaining over $1.1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) […]
In the US alone, it is estimated that losses related to account takeover fraud (ATO) amounted to $11bn in 2021, representing a 90 percent increase from 2020. In our 2023 global compliance survey, 39 percent of respondents said the type […]
Chargeback fraud occurs when a customer submits a transaction dispute with their payment provider for illegitimate – even dishonest – reasons. The consequences of fraudulent chargebacks can include unnecessary costs to firms, as well as enabling certain forms of illicit […]