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Retail businesses are trying to save on shipping costs by convincing shoppers to pick up their online orders in stores, but fraudsters are increasingly exploiting this shopping method to scam people.

Shoppers chose to buy purchases online and pick them up in stores 20% more during the 2018 holiday season compared to the year before, according to ACI Worldwide, an electronic payments company. The company also found that there was a 13% uptick in scammers attempting to hack into online accounts and use them for ā€œbuy online, pick up in storeā€ purchases between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31, 2018, compared to the same time the year before.