[Hidden-tech] Credit Card Fraud attempts at Charity site

[Shel Horowitz]

This is not at all my area of expertise--but

1) Have you talked to the cc processor about how to capture enough 
data to ID and block?
2) What about setting a higher transaction threshold ($5?) without 
saying that's what you're doing?


At 6:22 PM -0500 1/14/11, Christine Takacs wrote:
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>Hi All You Smarties,
>I wonder if anyone is familiar with the problem of stolen credit 
>cards being tested on Charity sites? A website I am managing is 
>currently a target of such attempts. A person is repeatedly trying 
>to charge $.01 on hundreds of different cards.
>
>It is a Joomla site, utilizing the Joom Donate plugin. We are using 
>SSL and Verisign security certificates and requiring address 
>matches. Also we are using <http://Authorize.net>Authorize.net and 
>have set fraud filters so no fraudulent transactions are 
>succeeding. I've read that this scheme happens on other more 
>high-profile sites too- like Haiti Relief and Obama Campaign, 
>etc. But it is still a concern and an annoyance to my client. There 
>doesn't seem to be a way to capture this person's IP address to 
>block it.
>
>Researching the site's Google analytics, it looks to me like the 
>frauds have used the following keywords to find the site:
>
>inurl:index.php intext:cvv donate
>allinurl:="view=donation"
>inurl:index.php intext:donate cvv
>
>Although I've done lots of web design, I'm fairly new to the back 
>end and am by no means an engineer, so I wanted to ask a few dumb 
>questions:
>
>Can these credit card fraud attempts do any harm to a site or donation system?
>Is there something we can do to dissuade attempts like this?
>
>Thanks in advance for any helpful advice!
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Christine
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>Christine Takacs
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