PRESS RELEASE: Common Chargebacks Often Associated with First Party Fraud
Sarasota, FL, April 18, 2012 / Internal Release - There are many schemes used to defraud eCommerce merchants which can range from buying...
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Issuing Banks Becoming More Strict with Friendly Fraud Chargeback Claims
In response to an increasing number of consumers making erroneous chargeback claims that a good was never received or a transaction was...
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Repeat Friendly Fraudsters Caught for Commission Scam
Two U.S. brother’s, Andrew and Allen Chiu, we’re blocked from making purchases from Nordstrom.com after excessive chargeback claims and...
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Best Buy Using Shared Return and Exchange Data to Prevent Friendly Fraud
In efforts to combat merchandise return fraud retailer Best Buy has instituted a system where they scan an identity document when someone...
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FTC Makes Recommendations for Protecting Consumer Privacy
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Fraudsters Selling Consumer Credit Reports Obtained from Legitimate Sources
Fraudsters have been selling identity information online in the black market for over a decade, but a recent investigation found...
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Text Message Scams Target Consumers Regionally and Nationwide
Just as fraudsters send email phishing scams they also try to elicit payment information through text message scams, a practice referred...
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Malware Targets Facebook Users
A common browser-based malware attack often targeted at online banking sites has now been configured to attempt and phish credit card...
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Global Payments Suffers Data Breach, Visa Revokes their PCI Compliance
Global Payments, a publicly traded payment processing company, recently announced that they had identified unauthorized access into their...
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Consumers use Weak Passphrases too
An easier-to-remember alternative to passwords, passphrases are a sequence of random words that should provide more security than a...
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Green Dot Makes Mobile Acquisition, Planning Mobile Wallet
Prepaid card provider Green Dot Corp. recently announced their acquisition of Loopt, a location-based mobile app, for $43.4 million....
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Identity Fraud Increasing in the UK
A recent report from CIFAS, a membership association focused on fraud prevention in the UK, found that incidences of identity fraud...
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Facebook Moves to Monetize Mobile App
Facebook recently formed an agreement with Bango, a mobile payments company based in the UK, to enable purchases directly from the...
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Google Wallet Faces Security Concerns
A web security firm recently uncovered and made public the fact that they were able to gain access to the Google Wallet application by...
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Will Microsoft Make a Mobile Wallet of Their Own?
A patent filed by Microsoft was recently released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office detailing a mobile wallet and payment service....
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Visa Predicts Half of their Payments in Europe Will be Made via Mobile by 2020
Visa is confident in the future of mobile payments as they are planning to showcase mobile contactless payments at the 2012 Olympics in...
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Google Wallet Gains Support from Additional Carrier: AT&T
Until just recently Google Wallet could only be used with NFC-enabled phones offered by Sprint, but AT&T customers can now also use...
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PayPal Expands In-Store Payment Trial with Home Depot
PayPal is currently trialing their in-store payment service in about 50 Home Depot stores but will be expanding to over 2,000 Home Depot...
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Survey Finds Increasing Consumer Comfort with Mobile Payments
A recent survey by KPMG found that 23 percent of U.S. consumers are “very willing” to use their mobile phone as a wallet while more...
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The Mobile Wallet Wars Begin
Since launch Google Wallet has been available on the Samsung Nexus smartphone offered by Sprint, but when Verizon started offering the...
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