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merchant911.org -- helping Merchants |
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merchant911.org -- helping Merchants |
Hypercom Terminal User Alert --- Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Recently, Hypercom announced a major bug in it's software that allows credit card information to be skimmed..
Complete story HERE
911 Linked by E-commerce Site --- Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Merchant 911 is proud to say that the e-commerce sites are starting to take note of us. We were recently added as an anti-fraud resource by Mal's E-commerce site, a well known shopping cart service.
Some people don't get it --- Saturday, June 23, 2001
Merchant 911 has notified the folks at SMART RecoveryŽ on two occasions that they are collecting credit card numbers and card holder information on an insecure site. We suggested to them that they are probably in violation of their agreement with the card companies and are most certainly exposing both card holders and merchants to fraud.
After the first notification, 911 was informed that they do not, in fact, collect this information. We pointed out to them that they have a form collecting all card holder information. We were informed that it would be fixed. Several weeks later, we notified them again and got no response. Over a week has passed and the page is still there.
Merchant 911 recommends that no one fill out the form on this site.
Visa NOT doing the job --- Wednesday, June 20, 2001
A 911 member, testing the LinkPoint Terminal, created a fake sale. A known fraudulent Indonesian sale was entered and the member used their American Express card to complete the transaction. "Transaction declined" The member then entered their Visa Number - "Transaction Approved"
What happened to Address Verification?
According to Loss Prevention, As long as the card is open & there is enough credit on the card it would be approved.
Merchant 911 saves another merchant --- Saturday, June 2, 2001
The merchant 911 tools and links in the Member Only area last week, allowed a member to identify a seemingly valid order as fraudulent.
The merchant had received Authorization from their payment processor but was suspicious of the order based on published information on our site.
Merchant 911 confirmed that the order had come from Romania although the buyer attempted to appear to be in Austria.
Warning to users of PDG e-commerce software --- Saturday, June 2, 2001
There is a known bug in PDG e-commerce software that will allow hackers access to buyer data.
Details can be found HERE