AN OVERVIEW OF PLASTIC CARD FRAUDS AND SOLUTIONS FOR AVOIDING FRAUDSTER TRANSACTIONS

Jangam Upendar, Etikala Gurumohan Rao

Abstract: Payment card fraud is causing billions of dollars in losses for the card payment industry. Besides direct losses, the brand name can be affected by loss of consumer confidence due to the fraud. As a result of these growing losses, financial institutions and card issuers are continually seeking new techniques and innovation in payment card fraud detection and prevention. Credit card fraud falls broadly into two categories: behavioral fraud and application fraud. Credit card transactions continue to grow in number, taking an ever-larger share of the US payment system and leading to a higher rate of stolen account numbers and subsequent losses by banks. Improved fraud detection thus has become essential to maintain the viability of the US payment system. Increasingly, the card not present scenario, such as shopping on the internet poses a greater threat as the merchant (the web site) is no longer protected with advantages of physical verification such as signature check, photo identification, etc. In fact, it is almost impossible to perform any of the ‘physical world’ checks necessary to detect who is at the other end of the transaction. This makes the internet extremely attractive to fraud perpetrators. According to a recent survey, the rate at which internet fraud occurs is 20 to25 times higher than ‘physical world’ fraud. However, recent technical developments are showing some promise to check fraud in the card not present scenario. This paper provides an overview of payment card fraud and begins with payment card statistics and the definition of payment card fraud. It also describes various methods used by identity thieves to obtain personal and financial information for the purpose of payment card fraud. In addition, relationship between payment card fraud detection is provided. Finally, some solutions for detecting payment card fraud are also given

Keywords: Online Frauds, Fraudsters, card fraud, CNP, CVV, AVS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0208036