U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) San Juan Field Operations confirmed Tuesday a significant increase of more than 300 percent in the seizure of counterfeit merchandise during the first two quarters of federal fiscal year 2017 compared to the same period in FY2016.
Puerto Rico is among seven U.S. jurisdictions with a higher-than-average rank for shipping and billing fraud attacks, according to a recently released study by global information services company Experian.
The incidence in debit and credit card fraud has been in on the rise in Puerto Rico given the different ways fraudsters use to obtain a cardholder’s information.