Hello Marc, MS> 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. MS> Interesting. And how would that work for non-US customers? I know that I MS> often have to enter the address "as on my card". There is none, just my MS> name. I have a mastercard, I live in the Netherlands (Europe). We have our MS> own funny postal code system (as the UK, letters and numbers, but MS> completely different again). I could try some experiments, but my guess is MS> nothing is checked, since my card worked uninterrupted last year when I MS> moved places and both my postal code and my street number changed. And it MS> took my bank some 2 months to send paperwork to my new address. I guess that AVS work only for US credit cards. BTW I don't have name at one of my cards, it's Visa and there are only number, date and CVV2. It's some kind of virtual internet card, without real plastic, just a bank account. I can enter any name I want and any address I want and I used to do this tens of times - it never fail because of wrong name or address or country or whatever else. -- sK
