Risk, Payments and Fraud [2022] | Udemy

Learn how to detect and prevent fraudulent abuse of your ecommerce business by getting trained in the fraud red flags and how they appear at many different points in a customer’s journey.

Have you ever wondered how payments are being processed behind the scenes? And when a card is stolen, what usually happens to the compromised data? In this course, we are going to answer these questions and more, explaining how payments get from merchants to banks, as well as the risks associated with the theft or compromise of personal data—both to customers and merchants. We will highlight the various entities involved in payment processing and how they protect against card data loss. We will also cover the difference between fraud and money laundering and which red flags are an indication for each one.

We’re also going to talk about the most common scam techniques used by fraudsters to try and obtain your personal data, like the West African Fraud, Miracle Health Scams, Online Shopping Fraud, Romance Scams, Phishing and many others.

This is an all-encompassing course that provides a broad overview of the payments processing industry including its main features, issues and trends.

You will be given a lot of examples of fraud in multiple industries, including e-commerce, iGaming, casinos, retailers and more.

You don’t need to have any previous knowledge or experience in payments to understand and follow this course, you just need to be curious about how payments work and how fraud can be prevented.