Card Issuer Search

[bcarroll]

Hi, is anyone aware of a search facility where you can enter the first 6 digits of a visa and find the issuing financial institution - I have heard one exists but I can not find it.

I did come across http://www.cardweb.com/ which was very interesting - They Claim Australians loose $500 Million US per year to card fraud vs $3 Billion in the US - thats a higher rate in Aust than the US per capita if the figures are accurate

[dferguson]

ezimerchant Professional now has full credit card fraud checking features. There are two different levels of Fraud Checking Data that we can provide.

We provide two levels of Fraud Data.

1. Basic Fraud Data (we provide this for free even though Maxmind charge us for this data)
2. Premium Fraud Data (we charge $10.00 per month for this data regardless of how many transactions your store gets)

For more information please see the documentation from within the DOWNLOAD ORDERS section of ezimerchant. (V3.8.2 or above)

We implemented this feature into ezimerchant Professional as a DIRECT result from posts on this forum. Please support ezimerchant by using the new features including the Premium Fraud Data service. It costs $10.00 more per month, but will save you a heap of time compared to logging into Maxmind for every transaction!

To turn this feature ON goto the ORDER DOWNLOAD section of ezimerchant Pro and then into the FRAUD DATA tab and click the "ENABLE PREMIUM FRAUD CHECK" button and follow the instructions on screen. You will be asked for a username and password - This is your GTS username and password. Once these have been entered the Premium Fraud Data will be enabled and any Credit Card orders from that point onwards will contain the premium fraud data.

I think the most valuble data it provides is the Card Issuers Bank followed by the ISP they were connected through at the time of the order. These two can really help you determine if the transaction was fraudulent or not.