A new report from the consumer credit reporting agency Experian found that Georgia is among the top 10 riskiest states in the nation for both shipping and billing fraud for online shopping.
Experian’s report investigated fraud trends to analyze the states where certain types of fraud related to online transactions occur most frequently.
The report explains that to better understand how shipping and billing fraud take place, Experian analyzed several data points, including geography, IP addresses, and device type and payment method. Fraud attack rates are the number of attempted fraudulent e-commerce transactions against the population of overall e-commerce orders.
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