Thursday, November 13, 2008

Merchants Beware - Fraudsters Ripped You Off For $3.6 Billion

By Don Reid

Carders 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.

The fraudsters use these cards to buy goods and services from online merchants because it's very easy and they never get caught. In 2007 they ripped merchants off for $3.6 Billion. Jusat how much of that was yours?

There are 4 main parties to an online credit card transaction. There are the bank, the card company, the cardholder and the merchant. Did you know out of all those parties the ONLY one that has any risk when a transaction goes bad is the merchant. Not only will the merchant lose the profit, the costs associated with the goods or services but he will be fined another $20 by the card company.

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 - 15246

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