Payments giant Visa has established a specialized Scam Disruption practice to tackle emerging fraud schemes and protect consumers.
The newly formalized group operates under Visa’s Payment Ecosystem Risk and Control (PERC) division and prevented more than US$350 million in attempted scams in 2024.
The Visa Scam Disruption (VSD) team employs a three-pronged approach to scam mitigation: scam intelligence, proactive investigations, and detection and disruption.
Visa collaborates with financial institutions, law enforcement agencies, intelligence firms, and industry working groups to shut down fraudulent operations and strengthen the ecosystem’s ability to detect scams.