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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (119614)	3/7/2001 7:28:08 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

MEANINGFUL evidence would be to say what % of fraud is related to internet compare that to the b&m related fraud. my guess is that there isn't much difference - regardless of the headlines. Skeeter, I know for a fact that internet credit card fraud is far higher than in traditional brick and mortar stores.I often have people ordering at my on-line using fraudulent cards. We do our DD so that we have never sent any item with the use of a faudulent card. The card processing firms charge a higher discount rate for all on-line transactions. This is true for us and for a pure play like Amazon. The reason being is their out of pocket losses are greater. This really is true. Glenn

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (119614)	3/7/2001 7:51:26 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

alomex, yes, but were all 100k used? i didn't read that any of the 100k were used - though i'm not up to date, either. In some cases they were. I have in mind at least one perpetrated by russian hackers a few years back.... MEANINGFUL evidence would be to say what % of fraud is related to internet compare that to the b&m related fraud. my guess is that there isn't much difference - regardless of the headlines. As Glenn has pointed out, takes for on-line sales are higher to reflect the greater risk....