Police where I live are interested in the crimes people report, but not in crimes they have no jurisdiction over or stuff that isn't a crime. They have no jurisdiction re interstate much less international fraud, and they aren't equipped to deal with it in any case. They don't have the money, the people, or the expertise. Last I heard, this would be attempted wire fraud, a federal crime, and if in the US, would be Dept. of the Treasury, which does have a report page for attempted credit card fraud. What good does it do to report attempted wire fraud on the scale we see? None, that I know of. Should we start carping about the US Dept of Treasury for that? Well, in the context of banks lying about their assets, skeevy real estate speculators, dicey mortgage companies, sellers of air-thin financial investments, ponzi scheme operators, and other really massive ripoffs, is it important? Is the US Treasury Dept. prosecuting these big fraudsters? Not much. Why should I want to invest the time "making an example" of someone who tried to place a fraudulent order when these bigshots are getting massive bonuses as a "punishment" for their crimes? I guess I just see it as pointless. Is that a reflection of the state of the US? Maybe it is. But the state of the US is not going to be improved by merchants going after attempted credit card fraud hammer and tong. That is a misplaced focus for one's energies, as far as I am concerned.
More to the point, what percentage of anyone's sales are fraudulent charges? And of those, what percentage of fraud attempts are coming from someone in the merchant's own country? For me this year, 90% of attempts are coming from Ghana. Last year, Indonesia. I blocked those ip addresses.
But I also think the focus here is skewed. It should be on preventing fraud, not on chasing people who try it. I am in a niche where there is not a lot of fraud because of the nature of what I sell. That was my choice, to sell the low-fraud (and of course low profit) things that I enjoy dealing with instead of high fraud, high profit stuff like plasma tvs, computers, or diamond rings. Nobody is being forced to sell a fraud magnet. That is the merchant's choice. If you do want to sell something that attracts thieves, then you have to be prepared to pay for all kinds of security that someone selling cleaning equipment or whatnot won't have to invest in. It's part of the deal. So the focus should be on preventing the fraud instead of going after people who try to commit it, IMO.
There is also a tax writeoff for bad debts here, so it is not like you are completely out when this happens.
The OP didn't mention whether the attempted fraud was in his/her own country or not, but to me, "ship to my shipper" sounds international, even if the shipper is in Miami.
