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4 Ways to Outsmart Fraudsters This Holiday Season
By Connie Spencer-Adams The 2010 holiday shopping season could be the most costly ever for internet retailers. According to industry data, web fraud, including the use of stolen credit cards to make purchases, is costing retailers over $3 billion every year. Reversing the trend is difficult, as criminals are clever and quickly find new ways […]
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Verifi Decouples Chargeback Service From Proprietary Gateway
By Kevin Woodward Merchants using Verifi Inc.’s chargeback representment service no longer have to use the Los Angeles-based company’s online payment gateway. Read More
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Verifi Service to Recover Chargebacks
By Andrew Johnson Electronic payments company Verifi Inc. has developed a service it says can help merchants that conduct card-not-present transactions recover up to 75% of chargebacks. Read More
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Alleviate Payment Management Fraud
Editor Erin Harris interviews Jeff Sawitke, chief product officer at Verifi, about alleviating fraud and risk related to payment management. Sawitke tackles some of the next-generation ways card-not-present retailers can reduce risk to their business. Read More
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Filtering False Customers Online
By David F. Carr Most of us have been trained to beware of being approached online by a Nigerian asking for help with a currency exchange. But for the Forex Financial Club, that could be a perfectly legitimate customer, since Forex actively seeks overseas clients. Like everyone else, though, Forex must guard against signing up false customers. The […]
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Friend and Foe? Combating E-Commerce 'Friendly Fraud'
By Tricia Philips Many merchants feel that friendly fraud is impossible to detect or prevent. The fact is, there are ways to reduce friendly fraud — and committing to reduce friendly fraud gives you the added benefit of reduced refund rates. Assessing business operations for weak customer service processes, obtaining in-depth market analyses, and adopting […]
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Electronic Payment Fraud, Security and Risk Mitigation
By: Anthony M. Freed I recently had the opportunity to discuss online payment security with Jeff Sawitke, Chief Product Officer at Verifi. Verifi is a leading provider of global electronic payment and risk management solutions for card-not-present merchants, with a highly customizable payment and real-time reporting platform that serves as a foundation for Verifi’s suite of fraud […]
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Nilson Report, April 2010 – Verifi ads Threatmetrix
The Nilson Report, Pg 3 VERIFI, a provider of payment risk management systems for cardnot-present merchants, has added ThreatMetrix fraud detection capabilities to its processing platform. ThreatMetrix offers forensic risk assessment software and a global shared fraud knowledge database. Alisdair Faulkner is Chief Products Officer at ThreatMetrix, (650) 625-1451, afaulkner@threatmetrix.com. Jeff Sawitke is VP, Product Management […]
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Sharing the Pain of PCI DSS Compliance
By Michael Vizard No matter whether you think the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a positive or a negative, the one thing that everybody can agree on is that it’s expensive. Between securing all the credit card information and hiring the specialist to make sure your website complies with the standard, hundreds of thousands of […]
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Protecting online games and gamers from cybercriminals
By Jeff Sawitke and Alisdair Faulkner Online games fraud has increased 145 percent over the last few years, and 30 percent of all online gamers say they’ve fallen victim to some form of fraud during their gaming experience. Some attacks are relatively harmless, while others can cause serious damage to a game publisher’s business. Following is […]
