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- Fraud & Scams
- 8min read
Application Fraud: How to Detect & Prevent It For Your Business
When customers need new credit cards or a loan, they don’t want to plan a visit to a branch to ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 10min read
7 Examples of Real-time Payment Frauds and How to Prevent Them
The ability to move money in seconds instead of hours or days is what makes real-time payments so appealing. Unfortunately, it also comes with a risky side effect: the threat of real-time payments fraud and scam losses.
- Fraud & Scams
- 6min read
Tackling Tariff Fraud: A Q&A with Feedzai’s Jas Anand
It’s hard to keep track of which tariffs are in place and which ones aren’t. Are tariffs on cars still ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 5min read
How ScamAlert and GenAI Are Changing the Game in Scam Prevention
It’s getting harder to tell what’s real and what’s a scam nowadays. Scammers use increasingly sophisticated technology like deepfakes and ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 5min read
LATAM Regulations 2025: Key Updates and Implications
New fraud prevention regulations are rolling out across Latin America, creating fresh challenges for banks and businesses trying to stay ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 6min read
What Is Digital Trust & How Does it Prevent Fraud
You rarely meet your customers anymore. In an age of apps and online banking, most transactions happen without eye contact, handshakes, or even a voice. While this digital shift makes things faster and more convenient, it also leaves businesses blind to who’s really on the other end, opening doors to identity theft which cost organizations and consumers $5.3 billion in fraud losses. That’s why digital trust—your ability to verify identity and intent without ever meeting in person—is no longer optional.
- Fraud & Scams
- 4min read
GASS 2025: Turning Talk into Action Against Global Scams
The Global Anti-Scam Summit (GASS) 2025 in London, organized by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), sent a clear message: with ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 8min read
What is a Deepfake and How Do They Impact Fraud?
A deepfake uses sophisticated AI to create highly convincing audio, images, text, or videos that look, sound, and act like ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 4min read
9 Years of Fighting Fraud Together: Learn Fiserv’s Secret
Stopping fraud is not something that an organization can do on its own. It takes strong relationships, shared knowledge, and ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 9min read
A Guide to Account Takeover (ATO) Fraud Prevention & Detection
Account takeover fraud (ATO) cost US adults approximately $15.6 billion in 2024, a 23% increase from the previous year. Experts expect global losses from fraud to reach $5 trillion, including losses from ATO-related identity theft.
- Fraud & Scams
- 4min read
Feedzai and Mastercard Partner to Secure P2P Market from Scams
Consumers lost more than $1 trillion to scams last year. As more consumers shop, bank, and make financial exchanges in ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 11min read
Romance Scams & Pig Butchering: A Call for Cross-industry Collaboration
Over 64,000 people in the United States lost $1.14 billion to romance scams, according to the Federal Trade Commission. These ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 7min read
What Is Synthetic Identity Fraud: How to Detect & Prevent Against It?
Criminals use made-up identities to steal money. That’s the reality of synthetic identity fraud. This type of fraud and money ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 8min read
2025 Fraud Prevention Trends: End-of-Year Scorecard
Last year, we peered into our crystal ball to predict the major trends in fraud and financial crime that would ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 6min read
What Is Behavioral Biometrics and How Does It Work Against Fraud?
As digital interactions in financial services grow, identifying who is behind the screen has never been more critical. Behavioral biometrics ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 4min read
BCB Normative Nº 491: How Brazil Can Strengthen Pix Fraud Prevention
Did you know that 41% of Brazilians report losing money to scams, with an average loss of R$4,784? In response, ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 9min read
Fraud and Financial Crime Trends 2024: What Came True and What Did Not
One year ago, Feedzai asked me to check my crystal ball and predict the major fraud and financial crime trends ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 3min read
CNBV Regulatory Changes: Finding Balance Between Security and User Experience
Fraud is on the rise, and regulatory changes are here to help. Recent updates from Mexico’s Comisión Nacional Bancaria y ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 6min read
GASA Global State of Scams Report: $1T Lost to Scams
Consumers lost $1.03 trillion to scams in the past year, according to the latest findings from the 2024 Global State ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 5min read
Dynamic Risk Assessment for Smarter Merchant Monitoring
Acquiring banks frequently have to walk a fine line when managing merchant risk. On the one hand, acquirers want to ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 3min read
10 Fraud Prevention Tips for Businesses
Hopefully, you’ve had a chance to read Feedzai’s James Hunt’s insightful conversation with Tom Pilling, Chief Risk Officer at Trust ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 5min read
‘Thelma’ Spotlights the Elder Fraud Conversation We Need
Warning: Spoilers for the movie “Thelma” are contained in this article. The movie “Thelma” has a well-earned 99% score on ...
- Fraud & Scams
- 4min read
A Guide to Secure, Seamless User Authentication in Payments
Online payments demand a delicate balance between security and user experience. Consumers crave a smooth, frictionless user authentication process. However, merchants must ensure that online payment methods and transactions are safe from fraud.
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