TRANSPORT OF GOODS AND PEOPLE OFFERS COMPLEXITY AND OPACITY AIDING FRAUDSTERS
November 15th, 2022
The surge in e-commerce promoted by the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a significant increase in fraud in goods delivery, with ‘shipping fraud’ becoming the “fastest growing type of digital fraud worldwide in 2021”, according to a Global Digital Fraud Trends report 2022 report from TransUnion. (1) Reported shipping fraud increased 780.5% year-on-year in 2021 worldwide, according to American consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion, whose report said this illustrates how fraud follows changes in consumer behaviour: “In this case, lockdowns and remote ...
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