-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > The CC companies don't care what the merchants have to say... we have > tried reporting CC fraud to them (as a merchant). They said the > cardholder must report the fraudulent usage of their card (usually after > the fact). I remember one time when the thief had the complete name, > address and telephone of the actual cardholder. We called the card holder > to confirm and discovered it was fraud. We contacted Visa and they stated > the card holder must file the report. We then told the cardholder that it > might be wise to contact the issuing bank and discuss the problem... I find it very affective to call issuing bank's fraud department. I've reported several cases like that during the year, and I've always got a good deal of the cooperation from them, which included contacting the cardholder on our behalf and confirming that he is not aware about the transaction in question.
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