EAST Publishes Fraud Update 3-2021
EAST has just published its third 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 6 non-SEPA countries, at the 5th (virtual) EAST Interim Meeting held on 6th October 2021.
The following countries supplied full or partial information for this Update:
Armenia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Cyprus; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Malta; Mexico; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Slovakia; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Ukraine; United Kingdom.
FRAUD TYPE
To date in 2021 the EAST Expert Group on Payment and Transaction Fraud (EPTF) has published two related Payment Alerts and one related Security Alert, and the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EGAF) has published six related Fraud Alerts.
To date in 2021 EAST EPTF has published one related Payment Alert.
FRAUD ORIGIN
To date in 2021 EAST EPTF has published one related Payment Alert and EAST EGAF has published two related Fraud Alerts.
DUE DILIGENCE
PHYSICAL ATTACKS
To date in 2021 the EAST Expert Group on ATM and ATS Physical Attacks (EGAP) has published two 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
