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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- iovation, a TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) company, today released its recent research that about half of all risky online transactions appear to be coming from a mobile device. Specifically, in the first half of 2019 iovation saw 49% of all risky transactions come from mobile devices, up from 30% in 2018, 33% in 2017 and 25% in 2016.
"Fraudsters are like chameleons. They are always adapting their tactics to make it look like they're legitimate customers," said iovation's Senior Director of Customer Success, Melissa Gaddis. "With well over half of all transactions now coming from mobile devices, our analysts increasingly see fraudsters either using mobile devices or making it look like their transactions are coming from mobile when in fact they are using a traditional desktop."
Among its research, iovation found:
To find fraudulent transactions from mobile devices, iovation suggests businesses closely analyze specific indicators including:
Mobile Transaction Jump
iovation found 61% of all online transactions came from mobile devices so far this year, up from 56% in 2018, 51% in 2017 and 45% in 2016. Europe and North America are consistently among the top continents for mobile transactions with 67% and 60% respectively so far this year. The top industry for mobile transactions so far in 2019 is communities with 73%.
For more insights into iovation's findings along with new iovation features to catch mobile fraud, go to this blog post that includes an infographic.
Methodology
iovation came to its findings by analyzing the 30 billion online transactions it evaluated for fraud from January 2016 to June 30, 2019. To find the risky mobile transactions, it calculated the percent of risky transactions from mobile devices compared to overall risky transactions. For overall mobile transactions, it calculated the percent of mobile transactions compared to all online transactions. iovation defines risky transactions as those that typically result in fraud.
About iovation
iovation, a TransUnion company, was founded with a simple guiding mission: to make the Internet a safer place for people to conduct business. Since 2004, the company has been delivering against that goal, helping brands protect and engage their customers, and keeping them secure in the complex digital world. Armed with the world's largest and most precise database of reputation insights and cryptographically secure multifactor authentication methods, iovation safeguards tens of millions of digital transactions each day.
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SOURCE iovation
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