As a busy merchant, you process card payments daily and you may have a large staff with different people handling those payments throughout the day, which makes implementing fraud avoidance procedures a little trickier. Here are some quick and easy tips you can incorporate today.
Topics: fraud, avoid chargebacks, credit card fraud
Cyber-criminals are always lurking to find the best place to hijack some legitimate deal in an effort to sell illicit goods and services online…where these crooks breed. One of the latest popular scams is transaction laundering through payment processors and in recent months it has become a favorite of drug dealers, sex service procurers and other similar corrupt dealings. The problem is many people have yet to hear about this and studies at EverCompliant indicate that “as many as 6%-10% of additional unauthorized ecommerce sites that banks are processing may not know the illicit activities they are backing without their consent or awareness.”
Topics: fraud liability, singular payments, merchant service scams, payment processing, fraud, merchant services, transaction laundering