White Paper

This upcoming tax season represents the most challenging to date for those responsible for issuing 1099s, W-2s and other tax documents. With so many Americans having moved during the pandemic – almost 16 million between February and July of 2020 alone, according to the USPS – keeping up-to-date on the whereabouts of your employees and customers will require significant effort.

GIACT’s new report, Identity Fraud in the Digital Age, developed by Javelin Strategy & Research, sponsored by GIACT, details the challenges of preventing new and emerging fraud threats and what businesses should consider in their fraud prevention strategies for the year ahead.

Fraud operators are increasingly using stolen, manipulated, and fabricated identities as the entry point for attacks against both consumers and businesses across the payments ecosystem. These attacks both originate from and target nearly every vertical imaginable ranging from banking, insurance and lending to e-commerce, utilities and telecom.

Business email compromise, or BEC – defined as a fraud tactic using email to socially engineer an employee to install malware or unwittingly transfer/redirect funds into a fraud operator’s account – is an increasingly sophisticated and elusive fraud tactic. According to the FBI, BEC is a $2 billion a year business.

GIACT®, the leader in helping companies positively identify and authenticate customers, today announced a new report, Undeliverable as Addressed, on the costly problem of returned mail as a result of deficient identity management.

Synthetic identity fraud (SIF) is one of the fastest-growing types of financial crime in the U.S. Insurers need to enhance their identity and account validation practices to identify and prevent SIF, protect customer accounts and mitigate losses.

Automotive fraud has spiked. Increasingly, as auto sales have migrated from in-person to online, fraudulent actors have capitalized on the use of false and stolen identities.