--- title: Can merchants work together to fight fraud?  date: 2017-08-21T21:56:00+01:00 author: Gerry Carr canonical_url: "https://www.ravelin.com/podcast/can-merchants-work-together-to-fight-fraud" section: Podcast --- Podcast / Fraud analytics Episode 6 21 August 2017 # Can merchants work together to fight fraud? Gill Wells from Just Eat and the MRC discusses with Gerry Carr the benefits of merchants working together to defeat fraud, and how it might be best to do so. ![Can merchants work together to fight fraud? ](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_548xAUTO_fit_center-center_none_ns/1645/07.webp)We're very excited to welcome to the podcast **Gill Wells, Co-Chair of the European Advisory Board for the Merchant Risk Council (MRC)** **and Revenue Assurance Manager at Just Eat** to talk about how and if merchants can work together to combat fraud. "You don't know what you don't know" when it comes to fraud, Gill says. It's only by speaking with other merchants or people who have had similar experiences with fraud that you learn how to better protect your business. This is especially true for new companies, when it's important to understand why they're seeing [chargebacks](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/how-to-prevent-chargebacks-ecommerce) and how fraud is happening. While sharing data seems like a great idea, how open to this are merchants? Gill reckons that fraud professionals get a lot more value in actually discussing challenges, tactics, etc with their peers than listening to a speaker at a conference. Getting in a room and conversing about common fraud challenges is the best way to get actionable tips for how to better fight fraud. Sharing advice is different from sharing data, however – which is where the discussion goes next. Gill stresses that the integrity of the data being shared would need to be high. As long as all businesses are sharing data with the same parameters pertaining to chargebacks and confirmed fraud, it would be a really useful for merchants across industries. The more information merchants have at their fingertips, the better decisions they can make around fraud prevention. If legal and technical issues are guaranteed to not be a problem, then sharing this data would be a no-brainer. One of the best places for merchants to swap war stories and learn from one another is the [Merchant Risk Council](https://www.merchantriskcouncil.org/) (MRC). The MRC caters to fraud professional from across experience levels and industries, creating safe spaces for collaboration between merchants throughout the year with their conferences, members' meetings and roundtable events. ![Ravelin Logo](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/ravelin-symbol-logo-transparent.webp) ## Ravelin's consortium: 9b+ identity elements Learn how Ravelin makes the most of fraud consortium data while staying clear of consortium traps. [Consortium data at Ravelin ](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/nuanced-consortium-data-at-ravelin) ![Screen Shot 2018 11 30 At 16 25 38](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_122x122_crop_center-center_none_ns/2005/Screen-Shot-2018-11-30-at-16.25.38.webp)Gerry CarrCMO (Ravelin alumnus) More from Gerry Carr - [Global CFO survey - fraud in the short-attention economy](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/global-cfo-survey-fraud-in-the-short-attention-economy) - [Charting the journey of the 3DS protocol](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/charting-the-journey-of-the-3ds-protocol) - [Ravelin releases its first fully-certified 3DS2 authentication service](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/ravelin-releases-its-first-fully-certified-3ds2-authentication-service) ## Related content [Blog / Fraud trends ### Online Retail Fraud Trends 2026: New global report Refund abuse just outranked traditional forms of first-party abuse in terms of its negative impact on retailers – while 78% say fraud has stifled their growth to some extent. ![1669287463716 2023 12 07 164059 ybjd](https://storage.googleapis.com/ravelin-website-assets-production/assets/images/_33x33_crop_center-center_none_ns/196785/1669287463716_2023-12-07-164059_ybjd.webp)Nikoleta Dimitriou,Senior Content Manager](https://www.ravelin.com/blog/online-retail-fraud-trends-2026) [Blog / 3DS & SCA ### What's the difference between 3D Secure 1, 2 and 2.3? 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