Systems and methods for assessing risk of fraud in an electronic transaction

Abstract

A system including a processing circuit configured to collect at least first contact information of a beneficiary, identify a risk associated with the beneficiary, automatically calculate a risk score for an electronic transaction based on the risk, determine that the risk score exceeds a first threshold value and displaying a notification on the user device associated with the electronic transaction, receive data from the user device, wherein the data includes at least second contact information corresponding to the beneficiary, compare the first contact information and the second contact information with additional data, wherein comparing includes analyzing the call records or the emails and determining that a user conducted at least one mitigation activity of the displayed mitigation activities, recalculate the risk score based on the at least one mitigation activity, and display the recalculated risk score on the user device.