The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway has published statistics showing that fraud involving account transfers and payment cards totaled NOK 438 million in the first half of 2026. This was NOK 120 million, or about 22%, below the second half of 2025, but broadly unchanged from the first half of 2025.
Account transfer fraud fell by NOK 102 million to NOK 282 million compared with the preceding half, while payment card fraud declined by NOK 19 million to NOK 155 million. Fraud in which payers were manipulated into initiating payments amounted to NOK 236 million. Payment service providers prevented nearly NOK 1.3 billion in fraud during the period. Reported fraud amounts include transactions regardless of who bears the loss or whether the payment service provider recovered the funds.