The Fraud Boxer Podcast

Author: Jordan Harris

Fraud Boxer is a podcast dedicated to fraud prevention, payments, and cybersecurity professionals and their industry. Jordan Harris hosts conversations, with his co-hosts Cambria Valente on Fraud Focus and Jacqueline Chilton on Payments Corner, on relevant topics for people in the industry and interview guests from merchants and solution providers to provide insights into a constantly evolving technical space!
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Fraud Focus: Bot Attacks & Bad Bread - Why Your Decline Rates Are Lying to You
Episode 90
Monday, 1 December, 2025

"Why don't you guys police that? ... I feel like that is behavior that I kind of pay them to police and stop on their side too." Coming at you from the Fraud Boxer in-person studio today we tackle the headache of card testing attacks and the new regulations from Visa that have everyone scrambling to keep their ratios below the 20% threshold. We break down why simply backing out duplicate transactions doesn't fix the problem and debate a hot topic in the industry: should the merchants be the ones policing this traffic, or should payment service providers step up and play bouncer before the data ever hits the network? It is a look at how bad actors use huge bot networks to guess card numbers and why your decline rates might be much higher than they appear on the surface. But it is not all credit card schemes and fraud metrics; we also take a hard left turn into film criticism with a review of K-Pop Demon Hunters. We discuss why the movie induced tears for Cambria and introduce a fancy scientific term "frisson" to describe the goosebumps you get from a great musical finale. We wraps up with a look at the rising costs of chargeback fees, which are jumping up to seven dollars, and a very serious culinary debate regarding peppercorn sauce on steaks and whether or not seafood should actually taste like fish. Grab a snack (preferably not a fishy one) and tune in for a mix of payment insights and questionable food opinions.