---
title: "Infographic: The growing cost of fraud in 2018"
date: 2018-11-19T12:01:00+00:00
author: Alara Basul
canonical_url: "https://www.ravelin.com/blog/infographic-fraud-in-2018"
section: Blog
---
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# Infographic: The growing cost of fraud in 2018

What was the cost of e-commerce fraud in 2018?

![Infographic: The growing cost of fraud in 2018](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_blogSmall/1612/infographic.webp)

We’ve pulled together some stats from our Investigations team to find out the common traits of fraudsters that operate within this arena. As we continue to grow our merchant base and process over a billion fraud scores a month, we also continue to analyse and gain data from our ever-expanding network. This enables us to increase our insight into the world of online fraud and the behaviours surrounding it.

We hope this is valuable to our customers and also to all merchants operating in the online space.

Here’s an infographic on the growing cost of e-commerce [fraud](https://www.ravelin.com/insights/online-payment-fraud):

![Rav Infographic 2018 V5](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_1408xAUTO_crop_center-center_100_line_ns/1576/RAV_infographic_2018_v5.webp)[**To learn more about online payment fraud visit our insights page.**](https://www.ravelin.com/insights/online-payment-fraud)

## Author

![Alara Basul](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_avatarSmall/851/afk_Bu-i_400x400.webp)

Alara BasulRavelin alumna

Alara has previously served as Head of Content at Ravelin.

[More from this author](https://www.ravelin.com/author/alara-basul)

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