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Online Credit Card Fraud by Postcode, United Kingdom, 2009

The research comes from industry body The 3rd Man which provides fraud analysis and consultancy services to large UK retailers such as Argos, Halfords and Ticketmaster and monitors a fifth of the UK's card transactions.

They analyzed 85m transactions from August 2008-August 2009, identifying card frauds across the UK by postcode. Interestingly, there are hotspots of activity - and at least £85m in identifiable 'bad' transactions.

The data is geocoded by postcode and includes number of transactions, Total value in £, number of goods ordered, number of frauds, fraud value in £, and percent(%) of good and bad transactions.

Attributes Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
Latitude 49.89 - 59.07 52.61 53.04 1.84

Latitude of UK postcode.

Postcode Text column (no statistics available)

Postcode for geocoded United Kingdom locations.

Transactions 4 - 220199 26733.00 30158.42 23976.31

Total number of transactions by postcodes

Total Value (£) 34.00 - 102928283.60 2775814.49 3301682.93 3575638.61

Total value in (£) of transactions by postcode.

Goods ordered 4 - 218895 26682.00 30031.83 23821.68

Total number of goods ordered by postcode.

Good Value (£) 34.00 - 102973439.60 2758401.29 3266130.91 3538906.19

Value of goods ordered in (£)by pounds.

Frauds 0 - 12166 19.00 125.97 489.50

Total number of Frauds by postcode.

Fraud Value (£) Text column (no statistics available)

Fraud value in (£) by postcode.

Longitude -7.87 - 1.70 -1.90 -2.04 1.82

Longitude of UK postcode.

% Good (Total) 0.10 - 9.00 1.00 1.00 0.15

Total percent (%) of good transactions by postcode.

% Bad (Total) 0.00 - 0.27 0.00 0.00 0.01

Total percent (%) of bad transactions by postcode.