card fraud
RSS card fraudFraud drives banks' smart card push
News Card fraud and identity theft are driving demand for and cutting the cost of smart cards in the financial sector, analysts claim. Deadlines set by MasterCard and Visa for a switchover and a liability... [18 Oct 2005]
Criminals hack chip and PIN terminals
News The discovery was made by specialist card fraud police unit, the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit (DCPU), when it raided a sophisticated counterfeit card factory in Birmingham.... [14 Aug 2008]
US teenagers charged with Net fraud
News Four people in New Jersey have been charged with Internet credit card fraud, according to reports in the Financial Times. The case arises in the week that the largest Internet fraud so... [14 Jan 2000]
Northampton's chip and PIN 'high street of the future'
News The fraud-busting chip and PIN card technology is fast becoming the established method of card payment in the shops of Northampton, home to the UK's first trials of the system. The aim... [16 Sep 2004]
John Lamb's Week: Getting the CeBIT between your teeth
Comment VISA Europe, the payment card firm, recently made a big thing about offering a E168m (£105m) inducement to card suppliers, merchants and banks to get them to adopt chip cards to cut down on... [16 Mar 2001]
Law Commission calls for crackdown on e-fraud
News The Law Commission has published a list of recommendations designed to create legislation to cope with modern credit card and Internet fraud. The proposals submitted to the government include introducing... [28 Apr 1999]
Small businesses fight back against fraud
News A UK e-tailer, frustrated at the rise of online credit card fraud, has taken the fight to the fraudsters with the launch of a website called early-warning.org.uk. Experian conducted some research in June... [24 Sep 2002]
Why the punishment doesn't fit the high-tech crime
Comment The nine-year jail sentence today for the IT expert who masterminded a £2m credit card fraud from passengers who bought tickets for London's Heathrow Express rail link contrasts sharply with recent... [09 Sep 2003]
Online retailers ignorant of fraud responsibilities
News Seventy-five per cent of online retailers are concerned about online credit card fraud, but only 41 per cent realise they could be financially liable, according to a recent survey. A spokeswoman for... [24 Nov 1999]
ID theft: Who's getting hold of your personal data?
Comment Is the internet responsible for a rise in ID theft and credit card fraud? ID theft - along with associated crimes such as credit card fraud - is now reaching epidemic... [16 Dec 2003]
£3m anti-fraud payment wins UK banks £65m back
News A two-year pilot project designed to tackle credit card fraud has proved so successful that UK banks are handing over £3m to keep it going. The Unit said the organised credit card... [13 Aug 2004]
Online retailers count cost of internet fraudsters
News Debit and credit card fraud carried out over the internet or by phone is setting UK retailers back £96m. More than 97 per cent of online retailers claim to be the victims of fraud in... [19 Jun 2002]
Retailers warned over £1.1bn fraud-busting scheme
News The largest ever trial of fraud-busting card technology by banks, retailers and customers in the UK has been declared a success but firms are being warned to allow plenty of time ahead of the 2005... [11 Sep 2003]
Chip and PIN slaps face-to-face fraud
News Incidents of face-to-face credit and debit card fraud have tumbled by 67 per cent since the introduction of the chip and PIN standard 24 months ago. But card fraud... [02 May 2007]
Blunkett's ID scheme gets slated by industry
News The UK government's proposed national ID card scheme would not prevent identity and financial fraud and could even provide opportunities for organised crime, according to an IT fraud... [03 Jul 2002]
