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Completely agree with fweespee_ch. Major CC processors such as Authorize.net, Braintree, etc. offer fraud protection measures but in our experience they do very little to prevent even a remotely-capable fraudster. Typical features offered are IP Velocity & regional IP (useless when the fraudsters spin up thousands of amazon servers), # of transactions per hour (not too helpful when your business already does hundreds/thousands of transactions a day), CVV and AVS credit-card response codes (ends up blocking more legitimate orders than fakes and the fraudsters typically already have this information anyway), etc.


There seems to be a huge conflict of interest here: as card processors slap you with an extra chargeback fee for the fraudulent transactions (in addition to the amount they take back anyway) it's difficult to believe that they would work very hard to help you avoid this.


Why? They have a profit motive for you to get scammed.


They do, to a point, but since you are the one who bears the fee they do the amount they can cost effectively which is frankly marginally effective.




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