Tips for Retailers to Avoid Online Fraud!
As the number of people shopping on the world wide web rise every day, unfortunately, so is online credit card fraud and identity theft. Scammers are finding new and creative ways to defraud innocent people and business owners. We, at crocwireless.com, have to put up with a lot of these scammers everyday. One of the favorite target websites for such fraudsters are the online cellular and electronic retail stores. We sell cell phones, cell phones accessories, motorola phones, blackberry accessories, htc accessories and many other similar types of products. One very simple technique of detecting a fraud order is to ensure that the billing address matches the shipping address. If not, chances are that it’s a fraud order, where the fraduster is using the billing address of the person who actually owns the credit card, and is having it shipped to his or her address. About 80% of fraud orders can be identified by simply performing this simple check.
Another simple check is to pull up the location of the IP address from websites that let you know the location if you enter the IP address. A lot of times, we have noticed orders being placed from foreign countries, but have U.S. billing and shipping addresses. While we cannot provide a very good reasoning on why such an order is fake, we still cancel such orders and avoid taking the risks, especially if its for something expensive like a Blackberry phone, but we let it go if its for something cheap like a car charger. Follow the above mentioned tips and you can save yourself a lot of money.
