Blog Articles
LegitScript Supports International Fraud Awareness Week
November 12, 2024
LegitScript joins the global effort to spread awareness surrounding the detection and prevention of fraud.
AI Abuse Among the Top Payments Risks for 2025
October 17, 2024
LegitScript’s rankings of the top high-risk trends in payments and e-commerce are based on its work monitoring merchants and sellers.
What You Need to Know About The Australian Government’s Scams Prevention Framework
October 7, 2024
The Treasury released an exposure draft of the bill — let’s explore the reforms and consumer protections they plan to implement.
How a Third-party Merchant Risk Monitoring Solution Can Help
October 2, 2024
Explore how our solutions help extend internal teams’ bandwidth by flagging merchants in your downstream merchant portfolios.
Acquiring and Sponsor Banks, Payfacs, and ISOs All Share Similar Challenges
September 18, 2024
We delve into the defining characteristics of the parties responsible for the various types of fraud and/or merchant risk.
Navigating URL Shifts: Understanding Ownership Changes and Their Impact
July 17, 2024
URL changes are relatively common in the world of e-commerce. Motivations for such changes may be born out of a desire to adapt to organizational shifts such as mergers or rebranding, take advantage of registrar incentives, or sell the domain to an interested party. While the process is often relatively straightforward and involves transferring domain…
A Recent Report Recommends Investing in Trust and Safety
March 25, 2024
In the recent report published by Duco, researchers found that investment in trust and safety is increasingly important.
Holistic Fraud Risk Management Programs Look Like This
March 6, 2024
Taking a holistic, proactive approach to fraud risk management ensures your organization operates healthfully.
LegitScript Merchant Monitoring Detects and Prevents Payments Fraud
February 21, 2024
With technology facilitating payments fraud, it’s critical that acquirers, sponsoring banks, and payment processors stay ahead of trends.
Exposing AI Deepfakes Is Critical to Combating Fraud — Here’s How
January 29, 2024
by Tiger Smith
Understand the far-reaching implications behind AI deepfakes and learn how LegitScript can help you uncover risky deepfake offerings.
What You Need to Know About Synthetic Identity Fraud
November 16, 2023
LegitScript noticed an increase in the sale of fraudulent document services including synthetic identities.
What Is Fraud and What Can You Do to Combat It?
October 25, 2023
International Fraud Awareness Week draws hundreds of organizations to pledge to raise awareness. Keep reading about what fraud is.
Merchant Monitoring vs Transaction Monitoring
September 29, 2023
We’re often asked what the difference is between transaction monitoring and merchant monitoring — aren’t they the same thing?
LegitScript Helps Detect IP Infringement Risk — Here’s How
September 13, 2023
Understand how to combat IP infringement, safeguard your brand, and create a secure online environment for consumers.
These 3 Factors Contributed to the Rise of Synthetic Identity Fraud
July 21, 2023
Synthetic Identity Fraud is a blend of genuine and false data bad actors use to gain unauthorized access to financial services like credit, loans, and merchant accounts. Read further to understand the unintended consequences of automation, randomization of social security numbers, and large-scale data breaches. Then, download our 20-page introductory guide on Synthetic Identity Fraud.