On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, at 15:35 [=GMT-0800], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > I have to say that it concerns me that the WorldPay, my credit card
> > processor, accept the transaction when the country on the card does not
> > match the country submitted - I am sure that they used to reject this.
>
> For U.S. processors at least, the only "address" information available for
> credit cards is the numeric portion of the street address and the postal
> code.  These two items are all that Address Verification Systems are
> designed to check.

Interesting. And how would that work for non-US customers? I know that I
often have to enter the address "as on my card". There is none, just my
name. I have a mastercard, I live in the Netherlands (Europe). We have our
own funny postal code system (as the UK, letters and numbers, but
completely different again). I could try some experiments, but my guess is
nothing is checked, since my card worked uninterrupted last year when I
moved places and both my postal code and my street number changed. And it
took my bank some 2 months to send paperwork to my new address.


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