On Jun 14, 2005, at 14:27, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Antifraud systems help distinguish suspicious purchasing behavior,
such as
one credit card being used in multiple states within minutes. Such a
pattern often can't be detected, however, until some purchases have
been
made.
My wife was a victim of this antifraud system last month. She went to
a thrice-yearly show where vendors from all over the country sell their
wares. She made two purchases at one booth. The goods were from two
different vendors -based in different states- so were processed as two
transactions. The second one, just a minutes or two after the first,
was denied with a "card cancelled" code. Then automated phone calls
started coming from Visa to our home number. It was quite annoying.
Impressive, but annoying.
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