EAST EGAF holds 15th Meeting in Amsterdam

The Fifteenth Meeting of the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EAST EGAF) took place on Wednesday 17th January 2018 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, Terminal Vendors, Networks, Card Schemes, 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 35 countries. 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 168 EAST Fraud Alerts have been issued, one to date in 2018.