EAST EGAF holds 14th Meeting in Amsterdam

The Fourteenth Meeting of the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EAST EGAF) took place on Wednesday 20th September 2017 at ING Domestic Bank in Amsterdam.

EAST EGAF is a regional expert group that focuses on regional and global payment terminal crime and fraud related issues, threats and counter-measures.

The meeting was chaired by Mr Otto de Jong and was attended by key representatives from Terminal Deployers, Networks, Security Equipment and Software Vendors, Law Enforcement and Forensic Analysts.

The Group, which meets three times a year in advance of each of the meetings of EAST National Members, enables in-depth and technical discussion to take place on Logical and Malware attacks, Card Skimming, Card Trapping, Cash Trapping and Transaction Reversal Fraud.

The focus of the Group is on topics and issues raised by EAST National Members, which represent 36 countries with a total deployment of 1,454,182 ATMs. Outputs from the group are presented to all meetings of EAST National Members.

In addition EAST EGAF generates EAST Fraud Alerts for all EAST Members (National and Associate). In total 155 EAST Fraud Alerts have been issued, 31 to date in 2017.