Credit card fraud prevention for merchants: Free email accounts
There’s an extra level of comfort when someone has an e-mail address with their own domain name. A free Hotmail account is a great thing, but it’s a lot easier to set up a phony e-mail than an entire site. There are many companies that simply deny legitimate business from customers with free e-mail addresses. That may be a step too far, but you can never be too careful. There’s a drastically higher rate of crime amongst users with free e-mail addresses. It’s easy to protect your anonymity through Yahoo.
It also depends on what is being sold. If you’re selling X-Ray
machines, you might want to think twice before shipping an order to garbanzobeans314@yahoo.com.
General
Guidelines for fraud prevention
Credit card fraud prevention tips (researching
the customer):
- International Orders
- Quantity and Frequency
- Addresses
- Common Sense
- Free E-mail Accounts
- Legitimate Domains
Precautionary Methods (from Merchant Side):