Credit card fraud
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Credit card fraud is a wide-ranging term for theft and fraud committed using or involving a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card, as a fraudulent source of funds in a transaction. The purpose may be to obtain goods without paying, or to obtain unauthorized funds from an account. Credit card fraud is also an adjunct to identity theft. According to the United States Federal Trade Commission, while identity theft had been holding steady for the last few years, it saw a 21 percent increase in 2008. However, credit card fraud, that crime which most people associate with ID theft, decreased as a percentage of all ID theft complaints for the sixth year in a row.
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See also
- Chargeback insurance
- Credit card hijacking
- FBI
- Financial crimes
- Friendly Fraud
- Identity theft
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- Internet fraud
- Phishing
- Predictive analytics
- Reimbursement
- Traffic analysis
- White-collar crime
- International credit card data theft
- United States Postal Inspection Service
- United States Secret Service
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