EAST Publishes Fraud Update 3-2020
EAST has just published its third Fraud Update for 2020. This is based on country crime updates given by representatives of 18 countries in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), and 8 non-SEPA countries, at the 2nd (virtual) EAST Interim Meeting held on 7th October 2020.
The following countries supplied full or partial information for this Update:
Armenia, Austria; Canada; Cyprus; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hong Kong; Italy; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Mexico; Netherlands; Norway; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Slovakia; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom.
FRAUD TYPE
To date in 2020 the EAST Payments Task Force (EPTF) has published one related Payment Alert and the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EGAF) has published ten related Fraud Alerts.
FRAUD ORIGIN
To date in 2020 the EPTF has published three related Payment Alerts.
To date in 2020 EAST EGAF has published thirteen related Fraud Alerts.
DUE DILIGENCE
PHYSICAL ATTACKS
To date in 2020 the EAST Expert Group on ATM & ATS Physical Attacks (EGAP) has published five related Physical Attack Alerts.
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:
TERMINOLOGY FOR LOCATIONS OF CDC DEVICES AT ATMS AND OTHER TERMINALS
