Share of fraud costs for online merchants in the U.S. 2020-2022, by attack origin

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Stephanie Chevalier,

Apr 17, 2023

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

Characteristic	Domestic fraud	International fraud
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Release date

2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2020 to 2022

Special properties

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.

Survey question:
Q13: Please indicate the percent of annual fraud costs generated through domestic compared to international transactions in the last 12 months.

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