> It seems that the fraud problems weren’t as bad as we thought
Fraud is only as bad as we know. And it's very bad, payment providers just aren't going to go around telling you about it.
I worked for a payment provider and it's very very difficult to eat fraud because it wipes out low-margin profits quickly. It's a tough dance - there isn't a lot of wiggle room between being too harsh in rejecting payments and being too lenient in allowing payments. And criminals are very, very good at moving on to another attack vector once you figure out what they are doing.
Fraud is only as bad as we know. And it's very bad, payment providers just aren't going to go around telling you about it.
I worked for a payment provider and it's very very difficult to eat fraud because it wipes out low-margin profits quickly. It's a tough dance - there isn't a lot of wiggle room between being too harsh in rejecting payments and being too lenient in allowing payments. And criminals are very, very good at moving on to another attack vector once you figure out what they are doing.