While mobile transactions for the booking of flights, hotels and rental cars see a significant rise worldwide during the summer months, so does fraudulent activity against online travel companies go up as well. According to new research from iovation, the amount of online travel transactions during an average summer month (June through August) in 2015 was eight percent higher than a typical month during the rest of the year.
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Marina Burghard writes for Canadian Fraud News about fraud-related cases, whistleblower, jurisdiction, identity theft, consumer protection, etc. – essentially about scams and how to protect yourself against this kind of fraudulent criminal behavior. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science where her interest in criminology grew. Besides fraud, Marina’s scientific interest lies in terrorism, extremism and how to deal with it as a society.