Fraud Screening or Fraud Alerts? What’s the difference?
Fraud screening is checking your transactions against known or suspected fraud, in order to receive fraud alerts.
The fraud alerts you receive can then help you to decide whether to proceed with your transaction, or whether to investigate further.
Why is fraud screening useful?
- It gives you cross industry intelligence – screen your transactions against the fraud files of other leading ecommerce operators.
- Receive a risk score – make your own mind up; you decide whether to accept, reject or carry out further investigation.
- Fraudsters aren’t loyal – they will defraud a number of sites, and try to use stolen cards wherever they can
- Protects against sophisticated incidents of ID theft– stop stolen cards being used even if card holder details appear to be genuine at first.
- Prevent friendly fraud - friendly fraud or ‘1st party fraud’ can be difficult to prevent, but fraud screening can help you to prevent the most prevalent offenders.
- An added layer of protection – used in conjunction with our other ID checks such as ID verification & IP geolocation
Tell me more...
192business offer 2 types of fraud screening; Real time fraud screening and retrospective fraud screening, for maximum chargeback protection. We screen transactions against our own database Fraud-ID, as well as Supersearch and Gamshield data. Many ecommerce operators we speak to, check their transactions against their own known fraud files, but our fraud screening allows you to screen against the fraud files of other (anonymous) ecommerce operators.
Card Not Present Fraudsters are not as loyal as your usual customers; they will move from site to site, ordering goods wherever they can, across a range of sites to limit the chances of their orders looking suspicious and being blocked. Fraud screening means you receive fraud alerts that will enable you to stop your site being their next victim.
For more information on fraud screening and fraud alerts, please see our Fraud Alerts page.
Or complete our online enquiry form to arrange a demo of how fraud screening could work for you.
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