What Is Smishing? How SMS Phishing Puts eCommerce Merchants at Risk
What is smishing? Learn how SMS phishing impersonates brands, hijacks customer accounts, and drives chargebacks, and how merchants can stop...
Read moreDetailsPYMNTS Survey Finds Stark AI Fraud Detection Adoption Gap Among Finance Teams
PYMNTS/Bottomline survey finds 57% of treasury and finance teams use no AI fraud-detection tools, 42% use three or more.
Read moreDetailsRavelin Survey Finds 27% of Shoppers Admit to Refund Abuse, Calls Them “Refundjackers”
Ravelin's survey of 6,282 shoppers in the UK, Germany, and France finds 27% admit to abusing refund policies, calling this...
Read moreDetailsFTC, Washington State Announce Proposed Settlement With Payment Processor Over Hidden Fees, Hard-to-Cancel Contracts
FTC and Washington reached a payment processor settlement with Riverside Payments over hidden fees, auto-renewals, and a $695 early termination...
Read moreDetailsTransUnion Finds $2.4B in Synthetic Identity Fraud Exposure as Fraud Shifts to Login and Transaction Stages
TransUnion finds US lenders face $2.4B in synthetic identity fraud exposure, with 81% of suspected digital fraud hitting logins and...
Read moreDetailsAkamai Finds 1,200+ Lookalike Shopping Domains and Rising Account Creation Fraud
Akamai's 2026 Fraud and Abuse Report found scammers rebuilding 1,200+ lookalike .shop domains within hours of takedowns, with login risk...
Read moreDetailsSingapore Police Arrest Three Men Over Stolen Card Details Used to Buy High-End Electronics
Singapore Police arrested three men who loaded stolen card data into a mobile wallet to buy electronics, catching two accomplices...
Read moreDetailsBBB Warns Shoppers That ‘Ghost Tapping’ Scams Are Overcharging Tap-to-Pay Cards
The BBB says scammers are using portable card readers to push tap-to-pay charges past what shoppers agreed to, often during...
Read moreDetailsAccount Login Fraud Drives Largest Share of Suspected Digital Fraud in Canada, says TransUnion
TransUnion's H2 2026 update finds account login driving 42.4% of suspected digital fraud in Canada as scam fraud losses climb.
Read moreDetailsGeneral-Consumer Scam Victims Report Far Higher Suicidal Ideation Than Identity Theft Victims
ITRC: scam victims report suicidal ideation at over 3x the rate of ID theft victims, and most get hit again...
Read moreDetailsInfobip Predicts 7.3 Billion Black Friday and Cyber Monday Interactions for 2026
Infobip predicts 7.3 billion Black Friday and Cyber Monday interactions in 2026, as most shoppers turn to AI to browse...
Read moreDetailsRetailers Catch Shoppers Using AI-Generated Photos To Fake Damage Claims
Boll & Branch, Bogg and other retailers are catching AI-generated damage photos used for refunds, as Riskified finds 1 in...
Read moreDetailsDOJ Charges Six in Romance-to-Crypto NFT Scam Run From Madagascar
DOJ charges six in a fake NFT investment scam run from Madagascar with Malaysia and China ties, as cyber fraud...
Read moreDetailsAWS Pitches Banks on Transaction Foundation Models to Replace Static Fraud Rules
AWS's Paul Chang says banks are moving to AI models that score behavior sequences and map fraud-ring networks.
Read moreDetailsEU Opens Digital Services Act Investigation Into Booking.com Over Fraud and Phishing Prevention
The European Commission is probing Booking.com over fake listings, phishing and ad transparency under the Digital Services Act.
Read moreDetailsAI Shopping Agents May Be a Revenue Channel, Not Just a Fraud Risk
Spreedly says AI agent traffic converted 2 to 3 times better than search for one client, as most fraud teams...
Read moreDetailsHow to Write a Chargeback Rebuttal Letter (With Examples by Reason Code)
Learn how to write a chargeback rebuttal letter, with a template, the evidence each reason code needs, and sample letters...
Read moreDetails3 Shopify App Vendors Confirm Checkout Hijack as 478 Apps Leave the App Store
Shopify removed 478 apps from its App Store since Oct. 14 after malicious code in three top apps redirected shoppers...
Read moreDetailsInfobip Report Ties $8.5 Billion in Annual Fraud Losses to Inflated Traffic, SMS Pumping, and OTP Abuse
Infobip says inflated traffic, SMS pumping, and OTP fraud cost firms $8.5 billion a year as AI fraud detection adoption...
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