Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Credit freezes block many fraudulent applications but miss synthetic identity fraud, account takeovers and tax refund scams.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

New Celent research finds synthetic identity fraud, application stacking, and bust-out fraud are outpacing what any one lender can detect alone Sixty-one percent of lenders identified synthetic ...

The latest fraud stats make uncomfortable reading. Fraud is growing – relentlessly. According to a report published in 2023 by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), up to five percent ...

Although scammers will go after anyone, they often target elderly victims with fixed incomes. Classified as elder fraud, this is a rapidly growing crime. Reported losses more than doubled from 2023 to ...

First-party fraud, also known as “friendly fraud,” accounted for 36% of all fraud globally in 2024, up from 15% the previous year, says LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Cybercrime report. First-party fraud ...

Mortgage fraud happens when someone omits or falsifies information in connection with the process of buying a house. This can be from predatory lenders trying to defraud borrowers or from borrowers ...

Technology will have a huge role to play in fraud detection with GenAI and consortium analytics shown to have the most promise The NICE Actimize “2025 EMEA Financial Fraud Trends and Investment ...