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Fraud Perpetrated on Australian Issued Payment Instruments
1 January 2009- 31 December 2009

Instrument
No. of Fraud Transactions
Value ($) of Fraud Transactions
Total No. of all Transactions
(thousands)
Total Value ($) of all Transactions
($ million)
Fraud as % of Total No. of Transactions
Fraud as % of total value ($) of Transactions
Cheque
1,488
18,643,194
333,006
1,500,225
0.0004%
0.0012%
Debit Card
63,894
24,471,348
2,509,411
259,520
0.0025%
0.0094%
Credit / Charge
593,819
145,854,208
1,845,183
255,235
0.0322%
0.0571%
Total
659,201
188,968,749
4,687,600
2,014,980
0.0141%
0.0094%

Note: Data for total number of all transactions and total value of all transaction is sourced from data published in the RBA Bulletin. The data is sourced from Table C6 for Cheques, Table C4 and C5 for the Debit Card (ATM-POS) Category and Table C1 and C5 for Credit/Charge Cards Category

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