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| Merchant Newsletter - February 5, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||
AMSI Offers Extended Support! |
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Fraud
Warning! We have been alerted that there is a new scam
we should all be aware of, as it can fool the AVS (Address Verification
System), and allow a shipment to a fraudulent address! It works on
3 facts: 1) The cardholder name is not verified by the processors.
2) AVS checks only the Numeric portion of the address (Street
misspellings are too common), and the ZIP. 3) Web site order pages
have an "Address 2" line for suite or apartment numbers.
Here is how it works:
The Fraudster enters the order this way:
Wow, AVS says the numeric portion of the address matches, as does the Zip code. The delivery company will assume the first line is just a purchase order number, and will deliver to the address on line 2! The fraudster could even enter a city and state in a different zip code, knowing most delivery services will "correct" the zip code if the delivery address is in the specified city and state! What can I do to protect myself? First, be glad you know about it, and then make sure you look at the "Address2" line of each and every order! If it appears to be a deliverable address, beware!
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You can now
generate a trouble ticket that we monitor on evenings and weekends! This
support is PRIMARILY via email, but you can include a phone number where
you can be reached. This support is for our software and hardware
packages only, billing and transactional problems are handled at the toll
free number you were sent upon approval. Response times can range
from minutes to hours, depending on the time and day of submission. Click
here to see the trouble ticket entry form.
Download our FREE Toolbar for instant access to Transaction Central to Enter Sales, Void a Sale, Issue Credits, Get Reports and more! You also get access to our Free Software Upgrades, Weekly Newsletter Library, New Products, Bargain Basement, and Order Supplies! In addition, our Toolbar will:
A Treo 650 for only $329?? One of our merchants called us with this deal. If you are a business (and all of our merchants are), and you have a Federal EIN (which you can get online), Sprint's Business Web site has this special: (if you go to a Sprint store, you better print the page and bring it with you- they might not believe it!). |
The total number of web sites is constantly growing, but as of as of October 2002 there were over 21,200,000 dot-com registrations, for example, along with 3.6 million dot-net registrations, 740,000 dot-biz, 80,000 dot-name, 920,000 dot-info and around 2.3 million dot-orgs. When you realize that major corporations (like HP, Dell, MSN) are HUGE, you can see that the top 25K is a very tough club to join!
If you can't remember that crazy URL to enter my transactions, we
don't blame you. We hear
that a LOT. So, to help our merchants remember, we now have created the
convenient:
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