How the ABA Foundation helps banks protect their customers
ABA Fraudcast
One of the major efforts from the very busy team at the ABA Foundation these days is helping bankers help older Americans protect themselves from scams. The Foundation's Safe Banking for Seniors program focuses on a number of ways seniors can avoid financial danger. "We provide and materials to help bankers lead personal finance presentations with kids, young adults and seniors in their communities," explains Sam Kunjukunju, ABA's VP for consumer education, in this episode of the ABA Fraudcast. "Unfortunately the criminals are definitely targeting Americans of all ages, and it's very...
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Inside ABA's new platform to help prevent Treasury check fraud
ABA Fraudcast
ABA's to provide members with free access to the Treasury Check Verification System is now live. On a special joint episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast and ABA Fraudcast, ABA anti-fraud experts Paul Benda and Hannah Ibberson discuss the platform and how banks can put it to use. Among other topics, Benda and Ibberson discuss: the scale of physical U.S. Treasury checks and why they remained a potential vector for fraud; how and why ABA developed the platform; how ABA member bank employees -- including frontline staff -- can access the portal to verify a payee; and ways this new platform...
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Federal data points to need for united response to fraud
ABA Fraudcast
Recent data on scams and fraud from the Federal Trade Commission and the FBI is, to no surprise, trending in the wrong direction. But there is confusion around such national reporting, and that is part of the problem. "There is no central figure leading this fight," says ABA's Paul Benda, who describes important challenges to addressing scams and fraud on a national scale on this week's edition of the ABA Fraudcast. to help banks prevent, identify, measure and report fraud, and to serve and protect consumers and their financial data.
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Developing a hybrid approach to fighting check fraud
ABA Fraudcast
What does fighting check fraud cost banks? How do banks find success in that struggle? In the latest episode of the ABA Fraudcast, ABA’s Paul Benda continues to explore the challenges of a metastasizing problem for banks, with his guest Sam Drennen, EVP and COO of First American Bank and Trust in Georgia. Drennen discusses ways his bank has learned hard lessons defending against criminals focused on a payment mode that has resisted extermination. The will be published every three weeks on this site, in ABA Daily Newsbytes and wherever you listen to and subscribe to your favorite...
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How mail theft fuels the check-fraud boom
ABA Fraudcast
The big story of check fraud is not only its vast cost to the country and to individual victims, but simply the remarkable rate at which it is increasing. On this episode of the ABA Fraudcast, ABA's Paul Benda discusses with Caitlin Piasecki of the United States Postal Inspection Service the enormous scale and challenge of addressing mail theft, a common venue for criminals to get their hands on paper checks. The will be published every two weeks, on this site, in ABA Daily Newsbytes and wherever you listen to and subscribe to your favorite podcasts.
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The power of AI and trusting that voice on the phone
ABA Fraudcast
In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing from a distant dream technology to an accessible tool of working and consumer life, criminals have certainly noticed. On this episode of the ABA Fraudcast, test your discerning skills at identifying who is real and who is AI. Impersonating the voices of even familiar people to us is rapidly becoming a new type of threat that will be difficult to stop.
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One community bank’s fight against a mass text scam
ABA Fraudcast
Community banks can be targets of large-scale fraud, just like larger banks. On the inaugural episode of the ABA Fraudcast, former ABA Chair Dan Robb, president and CEO of Jonesburg State Bank in Missouri, describes the recent targeting of his bank by fraudsters who texted thousands of residents of his community, seeking access to customer accounts. What followed for Robb and his team were fast lessons on all the areas his bank was prepared for, and a few challenges that were surprising. “We are no longer dealing with a mom-and-pop criminal,” says ABA’s Paul Benda, Fraudcast host....
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Coming soon from ABA's Paul Benda: ABA Fraudcast
ABA Fraudcast
Stay tuned for a new show from the American Bankers Association. Hosted by cybersecurity and anti-fraud leader Paul Benda, the ABA Fraudcast will bring you expert insights, tools and strategies to help fight fraud every two weeks.
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ABA Pandemic Update with Paul Benda: April 20, 2022
ABA Fraudcast
Paul Benda returns with the ABA Pandemic Update after a three week break to account for a spring break family trip to Greece returns. Benda reports they made the trip COVID-free. On this episode, he talks about a recent rise in cases, new BA.2 variants, fourth doses and improved booster shots, the dropping of mask mandates, and what the next few weeks and months may look like.
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ABA Pandemic Update with Paul Benda: March 30, 2022
ABA Fraudcast
In the latest episode of the biweekly Pandemic Update podcast, ABA SVP Paul Benda discusses cases plateauing nationally but rising in 15 states, second booster shots and when to get them, virus mutations, some good news on recovered immunity and things to look for in the future.
info_outlineIn the latest episode of the ABA Pandemic Update, Paul Benda focuses on the incredible growth of the omicron variant, what it's doing at home and abroad, how vaccines and other treatments such monoclonal antibodies are holding up, when to use a hard-to-get rapid antigen test, the status of vaccines for 2-5-year-olds and considerations for holiday travel and gatherings.