According to a 2021 study, nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of the total fraud costs incurred by e-commerce merchants in the United States were associated with domestic transactions. In 2022, the proportion of total fraud costs attributed to domestic transactions for online merchants reduced to about 63 percent, while the remaining 37 percent was attributed to international fraud.
Distribution of fraud costs for e-commerce merchants in the United States from 2020 to 2022, by origin of transaction
among those experiencing fraud in the past 12 months*
Supplementary notes
* Does not include internal or employee fraud.
The number of risk and fraud executives in retail and e-commerce companies varies from year to year. In 2022 there were 698 participants in the United States.
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LexisNexis. (August 2, 2022). Distribution of fraud costs for e-commerce merchants in the United States from 2020 to 2022, by origin of transaction [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 30, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1297063/share-fraud-costs-online-merchants-us-transaction-origin/
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