Study of fraud in Swiss online trading: over 92% of traders are affected and report higher losses

Zurich, 24 October 2018

Attempts at fraud have increased

CRIF AG, working in association with the VSV (the trade association for the Swiss mail-order business), has undertaken an online survey of Swiss online and mail-order traders on the subject of fraud. In this survey, over 92% of all the traders surveyed stated that they had been affected by an instance of fraud. 46.2% of participants in the survey said that fraud had either increased or increased severely compared with 2017. This figure is just about 10% higher than in last year’s survey. For 43.1% of those questioned, hardly anything had changed in comparison with the previous year.

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