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As companies digitize their operations, they are increasingly relying on digital content to make business decisions. In the insurance industry, for example, customers routinely submit their own digital photos and videos during the claim and underwriting processes. Insurers use this content with digi [...]
The secret? It’s something marketers have wanted for years! Today’s consumers are expert scrollers, skimmers, and pitchers (as in, pitching direct mailers in the trash). But, as a retail marketer, it’s your job to stop them in their tracks. To “Wow!” them. To put an offer so irresistible in fro [...]
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During our August 11, 2022 Market Pulse webinar, presenter Jeff Jensen, Vice President at Ke [...]
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As companies digitize their operations, they are increasingly relying on digital content to make business decisions. In the insurance indust [...]
The secret? It’s something marketers have wanted for years! Today’s consumers are expert scrollers, skimmers, and pitchers (as in, pitching [...]
The Changing Landscape of Fraud New and old fraud schemes are impacting all parts of the car buying journey. Dealers and customers are noti [...]
Recently, the automotive industry has faced challenges meeting consumer demand for better digital retailing solutions. Dealers, OEMs, and a [...]
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The more digital the world becomes, the more opportunities there are for fraud to sneak in. This can lead to many unanswered questions for c [...]
The boom of BNPL and the fraud that comes with it Everyone is talking about Buy Now, Pay Later as the boom continues. The value of BN [...]
Time to stop fraud in the insurance world Annually, in the P&C insurance world there is $40 billion in fraud. What used to be difficult [...]
Optimized trust enables organizations to find, reach, and approve ideal customers in familiar and unexpected places. In this recap of our No [...]
Necessity is the mother of invention. Just ask banking, fintech, and retail businesses, many of which compressed a decade of e-commerce inn [...]
We are living in a digital-first world and trust is more than secure transactions. During our November 11 Market Pulse: Optimizing Trust in [...]
In this recap of our May 6 webinar, “Market Pulse: Growth Amid Rising Fraud,” Amy Crews Cutts, President and Chief Economist at AC Cutts &am [...]
“Losses due to identity theft increased by 42% from 2019 to 2020 primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Aite Group estimates that losses fr [...]
Identity Fraud Accelerates in 2020 The year 2020 was a heyday for online fraudsters. There are a couple of reasons why. First, consumers we [...]
"The truth is, your identity has already been stolen. More than 800 million security breaches have occurred, and we have only about 320 mill [...]
Identity Resolution is at the Core In today’s digital world, identity resolution is more critical than ever. Whether consumers want to buy [...]
New Legislation Helps State Workforce Agencies Prevent Unemployment Fraud and Benefit Overpayments Signed into law on December 27, 2020, ad [...]
Consider Performance Criteria, Algorithms and Labeled Data Fraud prevention is a challenging task, given the mercurial nature of the proble [...]
Assessing a Consumer’s Identity is Not as Simple as Reviewing a Document and Putting a Score on it. The concepts of credit and fraud scores [...]
Welcome to our blog series on leveraging the power of data and analytics to maximize identity results. In my previous article, I shared how [...]
It has never been more important for businesses and consumers to trust who they're doing business with. Everyone knows the adage, “trust is [...]
New federal funds aimed at helping state workforce agencies prevent unemployment fraud and benefit overpayments The U.S. Department of Labo [...]
More data sources is only part of the equation In the era of big data, it is often thought that more data is better, but that's not [...]
Investments in Data Can Help Accelerate Support to Newly Needy Residents Counties spend a significant amount of time and resources to help [...]
Data is the New Soil Someone once said: “Data is the new oil.” Then someone else said: “No, data is the new soil.” Any way you look [...]
Businesses and Fraudsters Are Adapting The global pandemic of COVID-19 is pushing both businesses and fraudsters to adapt. While the d [...]
Many auto lenders and dealerships are aware of the general risks associated with fraud. However, synthetic identity fraud is especially impo [...]
Authentication Strategies for Today’s Digital Age Carefully orchestrated authentication and identification strategies are critical in today [...]
Financial institutions are struggling to keep up with evolving fraud tactics. They tell us their top areas of concern are new account fraud, [...]
I grew up watching various science fiction drama TV shows and recall one particular character that could shape-shift. He would shape-shift i [...]
Equifax recently joined forces with Infutor, an industry leader in consumer identity management. To help customers and prospects understand [...]
The financial sector might see the worst of it, but no business with an online presence is immune to the threat of malicious bots. In fact, [...]
Approximately $12 billion has been stolen by identity thieves over the past six years[i], and consumers are increasingly aware of its risks. [...]
Synthetic Identity Fraud is a Growing Threat We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Synthetic identity fraud is one of the most cunn [...]
Losses from Synthetic Identity Fraud are Increasing Most of us are familiar with the fable from Greek storyteller, Aesop, about the boy who [...]
Technology and better security measures are making it more difficult for card counterfeiters to beat the system. So today’s criminals are tu [...]
John Ray, Enterprise Fraud & Identity Analytics Leader, presented “Evolution of Identity” at the Equifax Spark 2019 conference. For more [...]
Online consumers can make their purchase with various payment options, like credit card, Apple Pay or PayPal. As a result, insurers feel pre [...]
Insurers Want to Give Customers a Better Digital Experience Insurance companies want to provide their customers with a frictionless digital [...]
Identify Theft is on the Rise -- Costing the Insurance Industry Billions During Halloween, children and the young-at-heart don costumes and [...]
Synthetic IDs are Like Digital Frankensteins Halloween is always a fun time of year. It inspires a childlike excitement in us all when we s [...]
Synthetic ID fraud is difficult to detect because it appears to be an actual consumer applying for an account. Instead, it's a fake identity [...]
Internal threats are a looming problem for both government and private organizations. That’s why government agencies joined Equifax, Carahso [...]
First, the good news: digital commerce is living up to its promise. Consider these numbers: 52% of all e-commerce traffic globally is fro [...]
While brick-and-mortar locations will never fully disappear, consumers continue to make their smartphones the channel of choice for shopping [...]
Communications, Energy, Digital Media Providers Face New Challenges Online and mobile-based platforms are changing how fraudsters operate. [...]
Government agencies face two key challenges: budgets under pressure and programs have to be streamlined to fight off fraud, waste, and [...]
Synthetic identity fraud is a well-organized activity of fraud rings looking for ways to create and then nurture fake identities over a long [...]
We’ve all been there. We try to apply for something or access an account for the first time on our mobile device and get frustrated at the s [...]
What is synthetic identity fraud? Synthetic identity fraud occurs when fraudsters create new, fictitious identities by using different comp [...]
Pathways to Synthetic Identity Fraud Fabricated social security numbers (SSNs) and authorized user abuse are the two main pathways into syn [...]
Practically everything’s digital these days, which can be both good and bad when you’re performing identity verification while activating a [...]
As consumers become more accustomed to interacting with their service providers via mobile and online channels, security becomes a [...]
Fraudsters make the move to account takeover and application fraud schemes It’s been almost two years since the liability for card-not- pr [...]
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to fraud and the growth in technology. The bad news is that fraudsters have easier access to th [...]
You probably know someone who’s had their identity stolen. You may have even been a victim yourself. But what happens when fraudsters steal [...]
The growth of synthetic identity fraud shows few signs of slowing. Data breaches, social media mining, phishing and other schemes [...]
Knowledge based authentication (KBA) has been declared dead many times over the past few years. But what is KBA and what exactly is th [...]
There are as many fraud schemes as there are fraudsters, but they fall into a few general buckets. Here are two of the most common fraud sce [...]