An Ennis-based retail lobby group is warning retailers to be extra vigilant when accepting card payments.
Card fraud, where a physical payment card isn’t needed, accounted for 16.3 million euro worth of fraud in the first half of 2016, compared to 21 million for the whole of 2015.
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Gardaí and Ennis-based Retail Excellence Ireland have teamed up as part of a Europol initiative to crack down on this type of crime, which has led to six searches and one arrest this month.
Lorraine Higgins has this advice for retailers:
