The folks over at PayPoint just published a new infographic on the rise of eCommerce (particularly mobile commerce) and the new threats of fraud that are being presented now that everyone is accessing financial information and paying for goods and services via digital means.
According to the data, 30 percent of Internet shoppers, or roughly 10.5M people, made a purchase via mobile devices while another 30 percent made a purchase via social media. Â According to PayPoint, fraud is on the rise because of growth in digital purchasing via mobile and social media — with projected growth of digital fraud growing 18% by 2015.
For much more information, download PayPoint’s full report, which is located here.