Banks Denying Digital Wallet Fraud Claims by Attributing Them to Device Ownership
Consumers report unauthorized transactions via digital wallets being denied by banks claiming the charges originated from their device. Banks fail to provide token-level provisioning evidence and conflate device association with authorization. As tokenized payment adoption grows, this evidentiary gap increasingly shifts fraud liability to consumers without a clear resolution path.
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