EAST EGAF

The 20th Meeting of the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EAST EGAF) took place on Wednesday 15th January 2020 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 from ING Bank and was attended by key representatives from Terminal Deployers, Terminal Vendors, Networks, Card Schemes, Security Equipment and Software Vendors, Law Enforcement and Forensic Analysts.

This was a milestone meeting and, in recognition of his work in founding and supporting EGAF, as well as his 16 years of active support for EAST, Otto was presented with an award by Ms Veronica Borgogna of BANCOMAT S.p.A, the current Chair of EAST.

Presentations were made by Europol (AP Cyborg), Geldmaat, Damage Control and Fiducia & GAD IT AG.

The EGAF 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.

In addition EAST EGAF generates EAST Fraud Alerts for all EAST Members (National, Global and Associate). In total 227 EAST Fraud Alerts have been issued, 2 to date in 2020.