P2P Payment Fraud Prevention

Stop P2P scams before the transfer leaves

DataVisor evaluates the sender, recipient, and connections between them in real time—so scams, account takeovers, and mule activity can be addressed in the moment while trusted transfers keep moving.

See how DataVisor protects every P2P transfer.

What You Can Accomplish

What you can accomplish with DataVisor

Full Context

Evaluate both sides of every transfer

Assess sender, recipient, account, device, session, behavioral, and transaction context.

Network Detection

Expose scam and mule networks

Detect scam and mule networks that span users and accounts.

Real-Time Intervention

Intervene in real time

Apply warnings, holds, step-up, blocks, review, or approve actions as the payment happens.

Layered Intelligence

See connected risk across every transfer

Payment and recipient intelligence, dEdge, identity and account context, behavioral analysis, Knowledge Graph, rules, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, decisioning, and case workflows.

How It Works

From transfer request to the right response

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Collect sender, recipient, account, device, session, and transaction signals.

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Enrich and compute velocity, behavior, history, and relationship features.

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Evaluate the transfer against your risk strategy and network intelligence.

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Apply the configured intervention and route related activity to cases or investigations.

Product Proof

See a risky transfer handled in real time

Follow a P2P transfer to a new recipient with unusual session behavior and linked receiving accounts—through risk reasons to a warning, hold, or review.

P2P transfer
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New recipient
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Linked receiving accounts
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Warning or hold
Explore a P2P decision end to end.
Connected Financial-Crime View

More than sender-level rules

DataVisor treats P2P risk as a connected financial-crime problem—combining authorized-scam, device, behavioral, recipient, and network signals rather than relying on sender-level transaction rules.

Coverage

Protect every P2P interaction

Authorized scams Account takeover Risky new recipients Mule activity Unauthorized transfers Social engineering Velocity abuse Coordinated P2P networks
Connected Platform

Connect P2P to every layer of intelligence

Integrate wallet and P2P payment systems, customer and account data, and recipient data with dEdge, Identity & Risk Signals, Knowledge Graph, Rules & Features, machine learning, Decisioning, and Case Management.

FAQ

Common questions

What is P2P payment fraud?

P2P payment fraud includes fraud and scams in person-to-person transfers—compromised accounts, manipulated senders, risky recipients, mule activity, and authorized payments induced by deception.

How does DataVisor spot a manipulated payment?

DataVisor compares each transfer with the sender's normal behavior and evaluates recipient and network context, distinguishing manipulated payments from ordinary P2P activity.

Will warnings and holds slow down regular transfers?

Targeted warnings or holds apply where risk warrants, keeping ordinary transfers moving.

See P2P Protection Live

Protect every person-to-person payment

See scam, recipient, device, and network-risk workflows for P2P payments.