Fraud Complaints Triple Last Year

According to News.com

[iJeep]

The monetary loss associated with the fraud more than tripled, to $54 million from $17 million, in the same period.

[news.com.com...]

Amazing, I wonder what percent Indonesia got of that $54mil.

[jeremy goodrich]

Hm, that article doesn't mention Indonesia anywhere. It even says, in most cases, the perpetrators lived in the same US state as did the victim.

I fail to see where the international connection lies...perhaps you could fill us in?

[axisoftime]

Yup, with a significant chunk of fraud occurring on eBay - of course this would be the case given the popularity of eBay. I think the IFCC is getting more complaints because companies, not naming names (eBay), claim zero responsibility for scams on their sites. I'm not saying they should, just saying how things are.

[SinclairUser]

Don't jump all over me but... I worked for an e-commerce site in Florida and most of the fraudulent Credit Card use came from overseas.

I guess they have less stringent methods of cracking down on CC fraud overseas than they do the US. I could be wrong but I am just stating what I have experienced.

Chris.

[ukgimp]

Another article SMH [smh.com.au]

[jsinger]

Indonesia ranks first in fraud *attempts* against our ecommerce site...well ahead of any other country.

Actually we've had little fraud in the past year. Beware of telephone orders coming via those telephone company "relay" operators.

That article made our local newspaper. I'd bet that 95% of fraud is never reported to anyone. Article means nothing.

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We have little fraud because we only sell within the U.S. and we verify suspicious orders by telephone.

[MadCa]

I sent you a mssg via stickymail regarding this fraud scam origonating from Nigeria , guess you didnt get it. The way it works is , a person from Nigeria calls to a company and places a large order using a stolen credit card, they then proceed to have to ship it either to Nigeria or a friend in the states, then they have ups or fed ex international pick up the packages and forward them back to Nigeria. It is one of the largest international scams . There is lots of websites about this .
Hope this helps