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How Identifying Key Behaviors in the IVR Helps Predict and Reduce Fraud in the Contact Center

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Fraudulent activity in the IVR has become a tool for more sophisticated fraudsters and scammers to gain sensitive data that puts contact centers and financial institutions at risk. Forward-thinking contact centers need strategic defenses in place to prevent fraudsters from exploiting the IVR. Why Does Fraud Happen in the IVR?

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New Era of Telephone Payments: SOTpay Shakes Up the Industry as IVR and DTMF Hang Up

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The need for heightened security in card-not-present transactions has gained significant recognition among compliance officers. Businesses are bidding farewell to the traditional Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Dual-tone Multi-frequency (DTMF) systems, embracing the more secure digital pay-by-link technology for payment processing.

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Top 3 CX trends banks need to be aware of in 2022

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The way customers interact with business has changed too, including those in the financial industry. Online banking surged in 2020, with 76% of US adults logging in via their computer at least once a month to manage their finances. This pattern of self service banking is one that seems set to stay.

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What is IVR?

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IVR or Interactive Voice Response is a system that reads out a menu or list of options during a phone call, and depending on the input (keypress made by the caller) received, redirects the call to the next level of menu options or to the right person. IVR has been a part of most big business phone systems since the 80s.

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IVR systems are dead. It’s time to consider a technology that delivers.

Interactions

Sending your customer through mazes to try to find an answer or having to sift through menu options on an IVR can create negative impressions that cause your customer to go elsewhere. According to Gartner, by 2020, approximately 86% of a customer’s relationship with a company will occur without the customer interacting with a human.

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Artificial Intelligence in Customer Service: The Past, Present, and Future

Solvvy

Replacing human customer service agents with IVR technology: Bad idea. One of the earliest forms of AI customer service to come mainstream is interactive voice response (IVR) technology, in which a computer recognizes the customer’s natural speech or touch tone and uses it as a prompt for their next action.

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DTMF issues have nowhere to hide with toll free and local number testing

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These in-band signals are combined to create a unique signal pair and then transmitted through voice channels. DTMF is present across a multitude of services and facilities, from telephone banking and bill payment services to Interactive Voice Response (IVR) menus and conferencing services like Zoom.