If I'm not mistaken, doing such a thing could constitute wire fraud (a federal offense), since you would be knowingly shortchanging a party, thereby violating the terms of your written agreement with them.
Check with an attorney, but I think this is correct, IIRC. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Josh Nathanson To: CF-Talk Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 12:41 PM Subject: OT: Authorize.net card present account Hi All, At my work we have two Authorize.net accounts: one is the standard type to process web transactions and one is the "card present" type, which is supposed to require an actual credit card swipe. For various dumb reasons my boss wants to use the card present account to process web transactions. I tried bouncing a web transaction off the card present account, but not surprisingly got the error "account not authorized for that type of transaction" or some such. My boss thinks that because you are basically doing the same thing with either account, IE sending a transaction request out over the web, you should be able to process a web transaction with the card present account. I'm telling him that there is probably some information that gets sent along to the card present account that lets it know it is coming from the swipe of an actual credit card, so there's no way to "trick" Authorize.net. If you could, it would obviate the whole idea of having a card present account. Who's right, me or my boss? -- Josh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268496 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
