Change in fraud levels experienced by e-merchants worldwide 2024, by type

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Yihan Ma,
Nov 28, 2025

In 2024, over *** in *** worldwide merchants with online presence reported a surge in online payment fraud. In addition, almost ** percent noted an increase in charge back, while more than ** percent indicated experiencing more account takeover (ATO) attacks. On the other hand, almost ** percent of merchants reported a decrease in refund abuse.

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Change in fraud levels experienced by online merchants worldwide in 2024, by type

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Release date

May 2024

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

March 2024

Number of respondents

1,457 global fraud and payment professionals*

Special properties

within the previous 12 months

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "How has each of these fraud types changed at your company in the past 12 months?"

*Participants work for businesses selling products online or online and offline with more than 50 million U.S. dollars in annual revenue and/or 500 employees.

The survey was conducted in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia.

Percentages may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.

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