Credit Card and Consumer Fraud in Switzerland�

Technical developments and improved security measures are supposed to be responsible for an overall observed decrease in credit card fraud. This presentation aims to verify if this trend is also true for Switzerland and if it can be linked to above mentioned technical protection measures. Data from different sweeps of the Swiss Crime Survey, a victimisation survey regularly conducted in Switzerland, as well as official data are used in order to examine to what extent persons in Switzerland have become victims of credit card as well as online consumer fraud.