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Subject:
Stolen Credit Card Registry
Category: Business and Money > eCommerce Asked by: atlascopy-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
11 Aug 2004 09:29 PDT
Expires: 10 Sep 2004 09:29 PDT Question ID: 386470 |
I run a business online and accept credit cards for purchases. While most of my credit card customers are legitimate there are always those few that I am uncertain about. Some are blatently fraud and I have learned what to look out for. For those few questionable ones is there a place I can call or a web site that has a database of stolen credit cards? This would sure make my job a lot easier. |
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Subject:
Re: Stolen Credit Card Registry
From: owain-ga on 12 Aug 2004 15:49 PDT |
Credit card companies would be very concerned if a list of stolen credit cards was freely available online, updated in real time. This would be crucial information enabling thieves to stop using a card as soon as it had been reported stolen, avoiding the risk of being apprehended by a shopkeeper when a card authorisation request is declined. The best advice will probably come from your credit card payments handler who should be able to advise you about real-time verification and authentication procedures. Owain |
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Re: Stolen Credit Card Registry
From: atlascopy-ga on 13 Aug 2004 07:31 PDT |
Thanks Owain. Actually that's the first place I checked. They were of little use and not very helpful. It would be nice thought if somebody could come up with a solution to this mess. It's only going to get worse. Barry |
Subject:
Re: Stolen Credit Card Registry
From: joey-ga on 13 Aug 2004 20:02 PDT |
Theoretically, the credit card companies already are doing what you're looking for. As soon as someone knows his/her card is stolen, he would call the credit card company, and they would mark it as stolen. So, if a customer used a reportedly-stolen credit card, you'd know it b/c it wouldn't go through. Any list of reportedly-stolen cards would thus be redundant. The best way, in my opinion, to try to reduce fraud is to ask for as much information from your customers as possible (the three-digit code printed on the back of the card, the billing zip code and phone number, etc.) If someone has stolen the physical card, he'd likely not know the billing zip code and phone number. If someone has stolen the number electronically, he won't have the three-digit back-printed code. --Joey |
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