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The MATCH List Let’s get the acronym out of the way: MATCH stands for Member Alert to Control High-Risk. It was created and is managed by MasterCard as a means of compiling information on businesses, and their owners, whose credit card processing privileges have been terminated. This database is then used by acquiring banks to […]
Categories: Fraud Detection and Prevention
What is credit card tokenization?
What is credit card encryption?
What is Address Verification?
Address Verification is a very important step in any card-not-present sale. Whenever you accept a card without physically seeing the card, you inherently run a much higher risk of accepting a fraudulent card. As a merchant, you want to do everything in your power to reduce that risk. There are no guarantees, but using the […]
What is EMV (Euro-Mastercard-Visa), or chip card acceptance?
EMV, otherwise known as Chip Cards, are the new payment technology adopted by the card associations. You’ll also hear it called “Chip and Pin” or “Chip and Signature” – but not matter the moniker, it’s important that all in-person merchants accept EMV transactions.
What am I responsible for?
I’ve found a suspicious sale (or more) – what next?
Time is of the essence – be sure to void/refund all impacted sales, and enable all fraud filters in Authorize.net.
Chargebacks and Retrievals
Setting proper account parameters
Best practices
