Fraud Prevention
Big sporting events like the Super Bowl don’t just drive fan excitement and spending — they also create prime conditions for ecommerce fraud. Tickets can be purchased almost instantly with limited identity data, traffic spikes strain traditional payment reviews, and high-demand tickets are easy to resell across a wide range of secondary marketplace platforms. When … Continued
Are merchant teams stuck in “AI tourism”? This week at the RILA CEO Forum 2026 in Ojai, CA, Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra, shared a provocative point of view: top-down AI mandates from boards and CEOs may actually have slowed AI adoption. Under pressure from leadership, middle management is engaging in what Bret framed as … Continued
It feels like every week brings a new headline or article about innovations in agentic commerce. As we move toward a world where AI agents conduct commerce at scale, clearly understanding the risks introduced becomes critical. One of the primary risks is the loss of key transaction signals used for fraud detection. Categories of data … Continued
Just in time for NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show, Riskified has released new insights on a costly post-holiday headache for digital retailers: refund abuse. In addition to the season’s usual flood of gift returns and exchanges, January rings in a surge in refund claims that quietly erodes margins and strains customer service teams at the … Continued
The online betting industry is built around speed, volume and global access. Real-time action and instant transactions fuel the excitement that customers love and return for. But that fast-and-furious tempo has also made real-money gaming (RMG) an attractive avenue for organized cybercriminals. Similar to what we see in cryptocurrency, remittance payments and alternative finance, direct … Continued
Fraudsters online are masters of mimicry. They understand which signals and shopping behaviors raise red flags for merchants and work to avoid them by employing strategies that imitate those of legitimate consumers. For example, Riskified observes that fraudsters often combine “safe” physical goods with risky items in a shopping cart, mixing, for example, lower value … Continued
The passage of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act) has accelerated the path to mass adoption. This act has sparked new and increased interest in cryptocurrency as a payment method, whereas historically, there has been more focus on crypto as an investment asset, analogous to investing in and trading … Continued
Get ready for the most AI-powered holiday season yet Ecommerce merchants know fraud never takes a holiday. On the contrary, fraudsters appear to work overtime during busy seasons when transaction volumes surge. From carding schemes to returns abuse, fraudsters know retailers are stretched thin and eager to please during peak periods, and they take full … Continued
As OpenAI and Stripe roll out the Agentic Commerce Protocol, merchants’ fraud teams are discovering an uncomfortable truth: they could be on the hook for fraud and abuse that originates through this new interface.
