A list of numbers on fraud, allegedly from The Times (also) repeated here FTR (for the record).
| Regular credit card number: | $1 |
| Credit card with 3-digit security code: | $3-$5 |
| Credit card with code and PIN: | $10-$100 |
| Social security number (US): | $5-$10 |
| Mother's maiden name: | $5-$10 |
THE BIG NUMBERS
£56.4 ($100) billion: Total amount owed on British credit cards 141.1 million: Number of credit, debit and charge cards in Britain 1.9 billion: Number of purchases on credit and charge cards in Britain a year £123 billion: Total value of credit and charge card purchases a year 5: Number of credit, debit and charge cards held by 1 in 10 consumers £58: Average value of a purchase on a credit card £41: Average value of a debit card purchase 88 percent: Proportion of applicants who have been issued with a credit card without providing proof of income £504.8 ($895) million: Total plastic-card fraud losses on British cards a year £1.3 ($2.3) million: Amount of fraud committed against cards each day 7: Number of seconds between instances of fraud £696 ($1,235): Average size of fraud, 2004
(Printing them in USD is odd, but there you go... I've preferred the Times' UKP amounts above, as there were a number of mismatches.)
The original is at http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2135302,00.html.
Posted by: Peter Gutmann at April 26, 2006 03:01 AMThanks ... I've fixed them up I think ... but readers should check these numbers before relying on them for a BP.
Posted by: Iang at April 26, 2006 03:35 AM