Losses from card fraud last year grew by 46% — NBU
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The amount of losses of banks, merchants, and clients from illegal actions with payment cards for the past year amounted to more than 481 million hryvnias. This is 46% more than in the pre-war year 2021. This was reported in the National Bank.
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At the same time, the number of illegal actions with payment cards, which resulted in losses, increased by 8%.
“In 2022, the average amount of one illegal operation was about 2,200 hryvnias, which is a third more than in 2021 (1,600 hryvnias in 2021).
At the same time, if you calculate the level of losses from illegal actions with payment cards in the total amount of all spending operations with payment cards, it remained relatively low. Thus, for one million hryvnias of expense transactions using payment cards, illegal activities/fraudulent operations accounted for 69 hryvnias. This is not much more than in 2021 (65 hryvnias) and indicates that last year the amount of losses from fraud grew comparable to the growth of the amount of transactions with payment cards of Ukrainian banks,” the message says.
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According to the director of the Department of Payment Systems and Innovative Development, Andrei Podderegin, 86% of the total number of payment fraud cases in 2022 occurred on the Internet, while only 14% occurred through physical devices (retail network, ATMs, self-service devices).
“Since the beginning of this year, the Department of Cyber Police has already received more than 20,000 complaints from citizens, of which more than 75% are related to fraud on the Internet. We observed similar percentages last year, so combating online fraud remains one of the main areas of cyberpolice work,” said the head of the Cyberpolice Department of the National Police of Ukraine, police colonel Yury Vykhodets.
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Source: Ministry of Finance
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