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Protecting Plastic: Credit Card Fraud in Historical Perspective

In: The Book of Payments

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  • Sean H. Vanatta

    (Princeton University)

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This chapter offers a glimpse at the early history of credit card fraud in the USA. It argues that fraud became prevalent when travel and bank card issuers disembedded cards from their original department store context. It then provides three interrelated frameworks for understanding the challenges fraud posed to issuers—as a network problem, a cultural problem, and a legal problem. Though travel and bank card firms eventually overcame these challenges, card fraud continued (and continues) to plague the industry, suggesting fraud may be endemic to payment card systems.

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  • Sean H. Vanatta, 2016. "Protecting Plastic: Credit Card Fraud in Historical Perspective," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Bernardo Batiz-Lazo & Leonidas Efthymiou (ed.), The Book of Payments, chapter 16, pages 167-176, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-60231-2_16
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60231-2_16
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