Risk Solutions

Fraud risk is fast becoming a costly issue for auto dealerships. The shift to online purchasing has given fraudsters, scammers and criminal syndicates, more opportunity to manipulate fidentity information to secure loans and acquire vehicles through deception. 

With the lure of lucrative payouts, fraudsters are refining their tactics to exploit gaps in fraud protection strategies, including how customer identities and driver’s licenses are verified and authenticated.

Keeping on top of your registrations on the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) isn’t just a one-time task – it’s an ongoing commitment to safeguarding your interests. 

Why PPSR Guidance is Needed During Insolvency Surge

By Malcolm Poslinsky, PPSR Specialist, EDX from Equifax

The ongoing housing crisis remains a hot topic and one of the major concerns for many Australians. Figures from Equifax1 confirm a troubling trend: home ownership in Australia becomes a progressively distant aim for younger people. 

Businesses collect and process vast amounts of data, and often overlook the importance of ensuring the data is accurate, reliable, relevant, complete, consistent and timely. For a data-critical sector like insurance, the process of cleaning data to fix inaccuracies, incomplete, duplicate or wrongly formatted records holds valuable benefits.

Establishing real, demonstrable trust in a person’s identity is essential for Australia’s 26.7 million people to transact online safely and effortlessly, levelling the playing field for credit access and fuelling our digital economy.

With Equifax’s robust credit rating methodology and processes, and the qualifications and expertise of its analyst team, we are able to identify early warning signals of company failures and their potential impacts. 

We spoke with Tehani Legeay, General Manager of Identity and Fraud at Equifax, to determine what businesses need to know about fraud detection and prevention.

Is your company holding onto personal data long after customers have gone inactive? Do you collect unnecessary details like date of birth when a name would suffice? And how confident are you that your stored data won’t end up in the wrong hands?

A person you trust initiates a video conference and requests access to a confidential document. Nothing in their appearance or demeanour seems untoward, and their follow-up email uses the same communication style you’ve come to expect. So, naturally, you share the file with them.