Such as I just gave a pizza place my name, card number, expiration, security code and zip. The same goes for countless other companies where I’ve done the same. What’s to stop employees from using this information to make fraudulent purchases? Or does it happen and just hasn’t happened to me yet?
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>[Americans reported 271,823 cases of credit card fraud in 2019.](https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr48wq_A01jetQwIwhXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANMT0NVSTA1NF8xBHNlYwNzYw–/RV=2/RE=1666020415/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.self.inc%2finfo%2fcredit-card-fraud-statistics%2f%23%3a~%3atext%3dAmericans%2520reported%2520271%252C823%2520cases%2520of%2520credit%2520card%2520fraud%2cfor%2520payment%2520worldwide%2520reached%2520%252427.85%2520billion%2520in%25202018./RK=2/RS=j68P2KN79rpkcFsRXiLmBNGoa1w-) This is an increase of 72.4 percent from 2018, when there were 157,715 cases of credit card fraud reported. Losses from fraud involving cards used for payment worldwide reached $27.85 billion in 2018.
[There have been 230,937 credit card fraud reports filed in *the first two quarters* of 2022.](https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr48wq_A01jetQwKwhXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANMT0NVSTA1NF8xBHNlYwNzcg–/RV=2/RE=1666020415/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fmoneytransfers.com%2fnews%2fcontent%2fcredit-card-fraud-statistics/RK=2/RS=7DIrKt5.lP9.2oBg5plc4uIx6Lw-)
Taking 2019 data thats 744 cases of credit card fraud every single day.
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