Increase in fraud attempts to e-merchants due to the pandemic 2021, by size
Among small and medium-sized online retail businesses across the globe that participated in a 2021 survey, 62 percent reported increased fraud attempts since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The higher the size of the company, the higher the proportion of online merchants reporting an increase in fraud attempts. While 80 percent of medium-sized businesses saw a rise in fraud attempts due to the crisis, this figure was 82 percent for large companies.
