Canada fraud costs for e-merchants by channel 2022

In 2022, a survey conducted among e-commerce merchants in Canada revealed a decline in the percentage of fraud costs related to online transactions. Conversely, the mobile channel experienced a rise in fraud costs among Canadian e-merchants, surpassing one-third of the total. Notably, fraudsters appeared to focus more on in-person and call center transactions.

Distribution of fraud costs for e-commerce merchants in Canada from 2020 to 2022, by channel

Characteristic	Online	Mobile	In-Person	Other (Phone, Mail, Kiosk)
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-

Download

Source

Show detailed source information?

Already a member?

Source

Use Ask Statista Research Service

Release date

2022

More information

Region

Canada

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 102 participants in Canada.

Survey question:
Q15: Please indicate the percent of fraud costs generated through each of the following transaction channels used by your company.

Citation formats