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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.

This section shows information about this dataset's attributes
Attributes Range Median Mean Std. Dev.
Postcode Text column (no statistics available)
Postcode for geocoded United Kingdom locations.
Latitude
49.89  to  59.07
52.61 53.04 1.84
Latitude of UK postcode.
Transactions
 
4  to  220199
26733 30158.42 23976.31
Total number of transactions by postcodes
Total Value (£)
 
34.00  to  102928283.60
2775814.49 3301682.93 3575638.61
Total value in (£) of transactions by postcode.
Goods ordered
 
4  to  218895
26682 30031.83 23821.68
Total number of goods ordered by postcode.
Good Value (£)
 
34.00  to  102973439.60
2758401.29 3266130.91 3538906.19
Value of goods ordered in (£)by pounds.
Frauds
 
0  to  12166
19 125.97 489.50
Total number of Frauds by postcode.
Fraud Value (£) Text column (no statistics available)
Fraud value in (£) by postcode.
% Good (Total)
 
0.10  to  9.00
1.00 1.00 0.15
Total percent (%) of good transactions by postcode.
Longitude
-7.87  to  1.70
-1.90 -2.04 1.82
Longitude of UK postcode.
% Bad (Total)
 
0.00  to  0.27
0.00 0.00 0.01
Total percent (%) of bad transactions by postcode.