Our store has recently been targeted by someone who is "carding" (e.g., making purchases to test stolen credit card numbers). We have a PayPal WPP merchant account, and they have suggested numerous options for preventing this including:
I'd appreciate input as to what would be the most effective. I'm assuming that these would mostly be implemented through the merchant API, but I'm definitely out of my area of expertise here. My store was built in an earlier version of Miva, and I have not really done enough with Miva 9 to know what its feature set might be in this regard.
Thanks!
- Only allowing purchases by account holders - not guests
- Using Catcha
- Velocity checks
- Address verification systems (AVS)
- And various other options
I'd appreciate input as to what would be the most effective. I'm assuming that these would mostly be implemented through the merchant API, but I'm definitely out of my area of expertise here. My store was built in an earlier version of Miva, and I have not really done enough with Miva 9 to know what its feature set might be in this regard.
Thanks!
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