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title: Are Your Payments Protected from Today's Fraud? 9 Questions to Ask
description: Concerned about payment fraud? Learn how to evaluate legacy systems, digital payment risk, and fraud prevention capabilities in this guide.
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# [Are Your Payments Protected from Today's Fraud? 9 Questions to Ask](https://www.echohealthinc.com/resources/are-your-payments-protected-from-todays-fraud)

 Written by [ECHO](https://www.echohealthinc.com/resources/author/echo) | Mar 2, 2026 7:54:27 PM

#### Are Your Payments Protected from Today’s Fraud? *Expert Perspectives on Risk, Security, and Trust in Healthcare and Insurance Payments* Fraudsters don’t win because they’re more sophisticated. They win because they evolve faster than the defenses built to stop them. With 79% of organizations falling victim to payment fraud attacks and attempts in 2024, attackers are relentless in testing payment systems for any moment of weakness. To help navigate an increasingly sophisticated and adaptive fraud environment, this guide examines nine critical questions on modern payment fraud, with answers from our experts in payment fraud prevention and security.

##### **Inside This Guide You'll Learn: **

- Why checks are the most targeted payment method, with fraud occurring **31× more often **than real-time payments
- Why fragmented legacy systems fall short when it comes to fraud prevention
- Where digital payments introduce risk and why they are fundamentally more defensible
- How network scale and connectivity surface fraud patterns no single organization can see alone
- Why payment automation is a key component of a multi-layered defense
- The five essential capabilities of a fraud-resilient payment program

### *Download the guide below to assess whether your payment infrastructure is exposing risk or actively preventing it. *

 

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