EAST Fraud Update

EAST Publishes Fraud Update 2-2021

EAST has just published its second Fraud Update for 2021. This is based on country crime updates given by representatives of 22 countries in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), and 9 non-SEPA countries, at the 4th (virtual) EAST Interim Meeting held on 9th June 2021.

The following countries supplied full or partial information for this Update:

Armenia, Austria; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; Cyprus; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Mexico; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Slovakia; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom.

FRAUD TYPE

EAST

To date in 2021 the EAST Payments Task Force (EPTF) has published one related Payment Alert and the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EGAF) has published four related Fraud Alerts.

EAST

To date in 2021 the EPTF has published one related Payment Alert.

FRAUD ORIGIN

Social Engineering

Data Compromise

To date in 2021 the EPTF has published one related Payment Alert and EAST EGAF has published two related Fraud Alerts.

DUE DILIGENCE

EAST

PHYSICAL ATTACKS

Ram Raids

Robbery

The full European Fraud Update is available to EAST Members (National, Global and Associate).

Information on the Fraud Definitions and Terminology used by EAST can be found as follows:

FRAUD  DEFINITIONS

FRAUD TERMINOLOGY

TERMINAL FRAUD DEFINITIONS

TERMINOLOGY FOR LOCATIONS OF CDC DEVICES AT ATMS AND OTHER TERMINALS

TERMINAL PHYSICAL ATTACK DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY

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