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Banks analyze payments in real time, apply rules to identify suspicious activity, and intervene when a transaction appears fraudulent. But what if the transaction isn't where fraud actually begins?
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Instant transfers, real-time payments, and mobile-first banking have created more opportunities for fraudsters to exploit urgency, impersonation, and...
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The same speed and convenience of digital and instant payments that benefit customers have also created new opportunities for fraudsters, which banks...
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Love is one of the most powerful forces in human psychology. The desire for connection, validation, and shared future plans can override rational...
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Payment fraud red flags are the warning signs and unusual patterns that help banks and financial institutions identify potentially fraudulent...
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Authorized push payment (APP) fraud is a type of scam in which criminals manipulate victims over days or even weeks before convincing them to...
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Money mule activity has reached a global scale. In a single coordinated operation, Europol’s European Money Mule Action (EMMA 9) identified 10,759...
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Money mule red flags are indicators that a customer may be using their account to move money linked to financial scams or other fraudulent activity.
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In the banking industry, fraud often starts long before any payment is made, sometimes even weeks before any losses can be detected. For that reason,...
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Most fraud prevention systems fire when the money moves. By then, the trajectory that led to the transfer had been building for weeks. The customer...
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The UK's authorised push payment (APP) reimbursement requirement took effect on October 7th, 2024, and there is now enough data to move past the...
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AI is reshaping the threat landscape and the tools used to fight back. For financial institutions, that raises a question worth sitting with: what...
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Fraud tactics have always adapted to whatever communication channel carries the most authority, whether that is email, SMS, or a phone call. Now...
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Internet fraud losses in the US have grown from $1 billion to over $20 billion in a decade. Legislation is moving through Congress. A Massachusetts...
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Money mule activity is often treated as a single category of risk. An account is flagged as a mule, controls are applied, and the case moves forward....
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Twenty years of fighting financial fraud leaves you with a particular kind of pattern recognition. That is where we started a recent conversation on...
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Social media has woven itself so tightly into everyday life that it’s easy to forget how much power it now holds. It’s where people maintain...
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Fraud prevention teams across Latin America are dealing with the same headaches, whether they're sitting in Mexico City or Bogotá.
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Instant payment platforms like Pix in Brazil and CoDi in Mexico have transformed how money moves. What once took days now happens instantly. For...
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Real-time payments have redefined how we move money; it’s now fast, frictionless, and always on. For people and businesses, modern money transfer...
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If you lead or support fraud prevention, it’s important to understand the trends shaping fraud in 2026. Attackers are gaining affordable access to...
