I have run multiple online stores and got very few fake orders. I do all my
CC processing through PayPal and do also accept Money Orders and Cashiers
Checks. Now that I am working on my own shopping cart program, I think I
will implement the user registration with email validation. Would anyone
know of the best way to do this?
Thanks!
Kevin Rosenthal
Magick by Design
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From: Ewok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've seen a couple, looks like someone jsut wanted to see how the form
worked or see if they could get an error or whatever. That is just regular
forms though, I never see it on my checkout forms since they need legit CC
numbers.
You could get rid of them all together by making a user regiter before they
can buy anything and validate their registration with an email with
generated links to "activate" the account.
----- Original Message -----
From: Samuel Neff
For people that run e-commerce sites, how common is it to get fake online
orders? We get a ton of orders with details like
First Name: a
Last Name: b
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
etc.
Which of course don't go through. They're all from different IP's and the
user is entering a semi-valid credit card number (at least valid according
to the mathematical validation--not valid in that the bank rejects it as
an
invalid account).
Do others get a lot of these orders (we get more of these than real
orders,
and we have plenty of real orders)? Why do people do junk like this? Are
there actually e-commerce sites out there that can be hacked like this
(seems impossible since I assume everyone is charging credit cards in
real-time)?
Thanks,
Sam
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