Monday, July 4, 2016

Losses due to fraud in online banking stabilized in 2015 – NU.nl

Excluding a major incident in 2015, the loss would be 6 percent lower inoperative, Payments Association Netherlands is on Monday in its annual report.

The total noose was 17.9 million euros last year compared to the historically low level of 17.3 million euros in 2014. The so-called pass-opstuurfraude where criminals pose as bank employees and citizens asking to send their only resulted in a loss of 1.7 million euros.

the dynamics in the payment system adopted by the association significantly to last year. Thus (digital) collection empower entered and took contactless payments enormously. Preparations were made for new payment methods as so-called instant payments in which transactions between Dutch banks are performed in seconds, iDeal QR and pyridin.



iDeal QR

Each month, the number of contactless transactions nearly 25 percent. The first tests last year were carried out with iDeal QR, which uses the black and white checkered squares containing codes and pyridin, a service of banks with which customers can identify online from other organizations.

for banks, the safety of internet banking is one of the highest priorities. Last year there were in the Netherlands, approximately 1.5 billion transactions via internet banking with a total value of approximately 4.900 billion. The loss of this payment was 3.7 million euro, or 0.0001 percent of the transaction revenues.

The high threat of fraud in Internet banking ‘remains undiminished,’ ‘says the association. So far, however, no fraud occurred with the mobile banking apps from banks

By:. ANP

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