Monday, November 14, 2005

Online merchants will lose $2.8B due to cyberfraud this year

Via The Inquirer.

ONLINE retailers will end up losing $2.8 billion globally this year thanks to online fraud, according to a survey by electronic payment and risk management company CyberSource.

The $2.8 billion figure is 8% higher than last year, CyberSource said.

The survey found that companies with annual online revenues of between $5 million and $25 million are being hit the hardest. Those companies saw online fraud losses rise from 1.5 percent of their revenue in 2004 to 1.8 percent of their revenue this year.

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