Beginners Guide to Payment Fraud Detection & Prevention
Over 50% of merchants have seen increase of payment fraud in 2020 and adversaries are using more and more complex strategies.
I felt it was time for a concise and comprehensive beginners guide to fraud prevention aimed at eCommerce merchants.
Learn about:
- eCommerce Payment Fraud Trends
- Payment Fraud Key Concepts
- Lines of Defence
- Fraud Screening Tools & Rules Engines
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Contents
Payment Fraud Key Concepts
The key areas of fraud that you need to know about. Whether you’re a product manager, engineer or working in a payments team. While they are basics there are quite a few and they’re important.
- How payment fraud happens
- It’s the card not the account
- The two types of payment fraudsters
- Fraud controls
- Fraud alerts vs. chargebacks
- Where to get fraud alerts
- Payment authorisation vs. capture
- Fraud features
Lines of defence
A pragmatic framework covering the key detection and prevention methods available. Armed with this knowledge you will have a strong grasp of the ways fraud can be detected and prevented.
- Fraud spike detection
- On site behavioural detection
- Off site passive fraud checks
- Pre-checkout risk assessments
- Your payment processor
- Your orchestration layer (if used)
- Fraud screening tools & rules engines
- On site active fraud checks
- Fraud screening
- Chargeback dispute management
- Offsite monitoring
Author
Duncan Malcolm is a futurist veteran product manager — bringing the dark art of fraud strategy, tactics and technology into the light.
Reading First Six Last Four is a bridge to help bring new perspectives and ideas to the tough and sometimes unrelenting world of fraud.
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