The top post on the popular Dark Web forum DarknetMarketsNoobs is a pinned compilation of useful links and important previous entries. The helpful post serves well to illustrate just how outdated is the old trope of the lone fraudster working from their basement. Today, no fraudster is an island. Instead, fraudsters are part of an […]
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Three Types of Policy Abuse CFOs Should Care About
Amateur policy abusers and those who are fraud-curious can now find countless practical – and affordable – guides to help them as they make their first steps in policy abuse. Riskified’s Dark Web researchers recently came across a $1-step-by-step guide to scamming fashion eCommerce giant Asos for an order refund. The very definition of the […]
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Riskified’s 2021 Holiday Report: ‘Tis (Still) the Season to Be Jolly
The holiday season is sometimes referred to as the most hectic time of the year — and that’s not taking pandemic repercussions into account. This year, retailers must think about rebalancing in-store and online channels, planning around supply chain disruptions, and offering the variety of shopping, payment, and fulfillment options that digital customers desire. Riskified’s […]
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5 Top Prevention Strategies of Ecommerce Fraud
Global online retail sales are expected to surpass the $7 trillion mark by 2025, according to eMarketer. So that’s the good news. However, the bad news is that this notable growth in sales will inevitably lead to a rise in eCommerce Fraud. In this blog, I will discuss top prevention strategies of ecommerce fraud. Beginning in […]
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Raising the Digital Bar: A Report for the eCommerce Fashion Industry
2020 turned the fashion industry on its head, sending in-store revenues plummeting while eCommerce sales soared. A transition that would’ve taken years was completed in a matter of months, giving businesses that were already strong digital players a significant advantage. Those who were not, on the other hand, often struggled to accommodate the shopping boom […]
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A Crisis of Confidence
Ecommerce fraud is a global problem. On that, everyone agrees. But new research from Riskified shows that merchants and consumers don’t see eye-to-eye on a key issue in fraud prevention. Consumers are not particularly confident in merchants’ ability to combat fraud. To measure the gap between how merchants and consumers view fraud prevention, Riskified conducted […]
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Evolution of Payments & Declines
Remember the good ol’ days of bartering? Probably not, since it hasn’t been a proper form of payment in over 5,000 years. Society shifted from bartering to using barley, then coins, and later banknotes and checks to represent value. With modern advancements in technology came plastic cards, eWallets, and other new payment methods. While this […]
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Back to the Basics: 3DS Explained
3-D Secure, or 3DS, is a strong customer authentication protocol activated during a card-not-present (CNP) checkout process to confirm the cardholders’ identity prior to authorization. It is an extra layer of protection designed to reduce the risk of online fraud. Merchants all over the world use 3DS as a component of their eCommerce fraud prevention […]
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Primed for Prime Day: The Dual Fraud Headache of Online Marketplaces
Get the whitepaper Online marketplaces have dominated the eCommerce space for the last decade, from giants such as Amazon, Wish, and Alibaba to vertical B2C/C2C marketplaces offering specialty curated goods, such as StockX, Vestiaire Collective and others. With Amazon’s Prime Day around the corner, the entire eCommerce ecosystem is gearing up for this year’s much […]