Ever find your palms sweating as you enter your payment info into a merchant site you’ve never used before? It’s a natural response; few financial details are more important than your payment methods ...

Banks are using huge amounts of data to separate legitimate purchases from scams. That's great for customers, even if it's a bit creepy.

ROACH HAS YOUR ANSWER. SO THERE ARE BASICALLY TWO KINDS OF CREDIT CARD SKIMMERS. ONE KIND GOES INSIDE THE CREDIT CARD READER, AND THE OTHER ONE ON THE OUTSIDE. HERE’S A SKIMMER THAT WAS FOUND A FEW ...

Detectives from the department’s financial crimes unit and members of the U.S. Secret Service found 20 credit card skimming devices during a countywide detection operation.

A surge in digital payment technologies has been paralleled by an equally rapid increase in credit card fraud. This research field explores multifaceted approaches that combine advanced analytics, ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Card skimmers steal information from your credit or ATM card. These skimmers look similar to the regular card reader you find at the point of sale terminal and usually ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the shift towards electronic payments, which is unlikely to reverse anytime soon, if ever. Credit cards were the most vulnerable payment method to online scams in ...

Harlan Vaughn was formerly a credit cards editor for Forbes Advisor with over a decade of experience. With a deep understanding of the credit card industry, his passion for travel strategies drives ...

Kelly-Ann Franklin has spent more than two decades in journalism which has helped her build a wide knowledge base of business and personal finance topics. Her goal with editing is to ensure tough ...

If you’ve ever had a credit card purchase mysteriously rejected only to discover later that the bank thought you were a fraudulent user, you may appreciate an effort by MasterCard International to use ...