Interpol’s Advisory Group on Payment Card Fraud met at the Interpol General Secretariat on 27 June 2007 to discuss payment card fraud, emerging trends, and future initiatives for Interpol’s Counterfeit Payment Cards Database (CPCD). This event served as a continuation of the previous working group held just six months earlier (from 5-6 December 2006) , as representatives from American Express, MasterCard, Visa and law enforcement gathered once again in Lyon to assess this particular crime area.

The members of the Advisory Group commended the on-going initiatives concerned with the development of the CPCD and pledged continued support. The Group proposed different ways of encouraging more submissions of counterfeit payment cards from Interpol member countries, to include the possibility of greater use of remote input. Attendees also recommended that Interpol General Secretariat should develop a system that would better collate world-wide payment card fraud statistics and information on fraud and its trends.

In the end, participants agreed to support Interpol’s Counterfeits and Security Documents Branch and the Financial and High Technology Sub-Directorate in their efforts.

Additionally, participants agreed to meet again in January 2008 in order to assess developing trends, as well as the CPCD progress.