Refund fraud could cost retailers £2.3bn annually, with scammers taking 30% cuts

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A new report by the University of Portsmouth, funded by Cifas, estimates that refund fraud could be costing UK retail dearly. 

Online retailers have long been plagued by serial returners eroding their profit margins, but a growing trend of customers or dedicated scammers comitting refund fraud could be making that problem even worse.

 

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