Merchants Beware - The Fraudsters ARE coming To Get You!
Written by Don Reid on October 28th, 2008Carders are a group of criminals who buy and sell credit card information on forums. You can google “carders forum” to see what I mean. you will see that thousands of cards are bought and sold every day.
Carders and fraudsters use stolen credit card information primarily to buy goods and services online from unsuspecting merchants. In 2007 the total they stole from websites was $3.6 BILLION. In 2008 the total will be more than 4 billion.
Most people do not realise the following, but it’s dead set true. In a online credit card transaction there are 4 parties. There are the banks, the card company, the card holder and the merchant. The merchant is the ONLY one out of those parties that has any risk in a fraudulent transaction. Not only will the merchant lose the profit and costs for the sale, the card company will also fine the merchant $20. That just adds insult to injury.
The biggest problem online merchants have is they simply do not have a signature from the cardholder and they are unlikely to get it. Without a signature from the cardholder, the merchant is the only party at risk. This is because there is no proof the cardholder authorized the transaction.
Another problem for online merchants is real cardholders who buy goods and services and then later claim they never authorised the transaction. This is a growing problem and one I have found some solutions which you can apply.
After observing fraudster for 13 years and personally being part of hundreds of thousands of online transactions I have learnt the fruadsters telltale signs. I’ve written a new
book and made a video which reveals exactly how to detect a fraud before it becomes a problem
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