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From DW Co-Founder John Daniels:
"Please make sure that  All the information that we have received about fraud is part of our presentation to those merchants who do not have up to date emv equipment. Many do not understand they they will be paying a lot of money over the next year in  fraud losses." 

U.S. Card Issuers Lose $10.9B Annually to Fraud: LexisNexis

By Tanaya Macheel
June 7, 2016

With Credit Cards Accounting For 71% of Losses, Study Authors Anticipate a Rush of Counterfeit Card Fraud as Mag Stripe Window Closes and EMV Takes Hold

U.S. card issuers lose $10.9 billion each year to card fraud, according to research released Tuesday by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

Credit cards account for $7.6 billion (71%) of overall losses to card fraud; debit accounts, $2.7 billion (25%) and prepaid cards, $500 million. LexisNexis collaborated with Javelin Strategy and Research on the online survey of 100 risk and fraud decision-makers and influencers working at U.S. card issuers.

EMV chip technology is the strongest defense against fraud at the point of sale, Michael C. Smith, director of fraud market planning and author of the study, said in a June 6 news release. But as the U.S. payments industry continues to roll out EMV security, issuers are expecting an increase in certain types of fraud that EMV does not protect.

"With the window closing on easily replicable magstripe cards, we forecast a shift and bump in identity schemes —characterized by the use of synthetic identities and the misuse of true identities," he said in the release.

Application fraud – when someone opens an account using fake or stolen documents in another person’s name – and account takeover – usually the result of phishing, spyware or malware scams – represent the two most harmful types of fraud, each of which represents 20% of total fraud losses. Counterfeit card fraud represents 16% of losses and card-not-present fraud is expected to increase with or without EMV in place.

The misuse of payment cards that are lost or stolen (28% of fraud losses) and nonreceipt fraud (15%) – when the card is intercepted in the mail before the legitimate cardholder receives it – represent the biggest challenges to issuers’ ability to distinguish fraud committed by the cardholder and a fraudster, according to the study. Since EMV protects against counterfeit fraud, stolen and nonreceipt card fraud are unaffected by its protections

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Excellent webinar with DW Top Agent Rick Andersen!  If you missed it, BE SURE to catch the recorded version as soon as it's posted.  You will want guests to hear it, too!  Rick makes a clear and compelling case for building a DW biz based on his decades as a successful 'traditional' businessman.


Thanks, Rick!
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More on Fraud:

Best and Worst States regarding Credit Card Frauds Complaints reported by US Costumers per 100,000 Inhabitants

States with Highest Credit Card Frauds Complains	%		States with Lowest Credit Card Frauds Complains	%
District of Columbia	50.69%		North Dakota	5.94%
Nevada	36.02%		Wyoming	7.01%
California	34.75%		Vermont	7.03%
New York	30.97%		Iowa	7.12%
New Jersey	30.83%		Mississippi	7.42%

Source: Consumer Sentinel Network, Annual Reports 

From wiki:

Although incidence of credit card fraud is limited to about 0.1% of all card transactions, this has resulted in huge financial losses as the fraudulent transactions have been large value transactions. In 1999, out of 12 billion transactions made annually, approximately 10 million—or one out of every 1200 transactions—turned out to be fraudulent.^[3] Also, 0.04% (4 out of every 10,000) of all monthly active accounts were fraudulent. Even with tremendous volume and value increase in credit card transactions since then, these proportions have stayed the same or have decreased due to sophisticated fraud detection and prevention systems. Today's fraud detection systems are designed to prevent one twelfth of one percent of all transactions processed which still translates into billions of dollars in losses.^[3]

  
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