Yes, criminal activity spikes during peak shopping season. But the most damaging fraud often doesn’t happen in November or December. It happens months later, after the holidays have passed and attention has shifted, using accounts that were created, compromised, or harvested during peak volume. Fraudsters don’t treat the holidays as a sprint, they treat them as account setup season. Fraudsters use the holidays to set up sleeper accounts and synthetic identities, and to harves

Klarna is just now learning what many in fraud prevention have known for years: synthetic identity fraud doesn’t start with stolen credit cards, it starts with unvetted digital identities. For years, email addresses have been treated as little more than a communication channel, a box to check during account creation. That assumption is now proving to be dangerously outdated . Email is often the first persistent identifier tied to consumer, vendor, and partner accounts. When e

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