Types of Bank Cards Related Frauds
Types of Bank Cards Related Frauds

Summary/Abstract: The card issued by a credit institution represents an electronic payment instrument, a standardised, secured and individualised information support, respectively, which allows to his/her holder to use the own money from an account opened on his/her name at the card’s issuer and/or to use a credit line, within the limit of a ceiling previously established, opened by the issuer in favour of the cardholder, in order to carry out different operations. The study presents and analyzes a variety of types of bank cards related frauds. The process of the investigation of offences committed by fraudulent use of bank cards uses classic forensic means, such as the analysis of fingerprints and the examination of documents, as well as specific forensic means of physical and logical analysis of bank cards.

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