Subject: Re: As a Retailer, Who do you Report Card Fraud To?
From: Thored 
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:49:37 +0100
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Newsgroups: uk.politics.misc uk.finance alt.politics.british

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:19:28 +0100, Maria
 wrote:

>I've had this before - someone buys something in our internet shop
>with a card that looks fraudulent.
>All cardholder details match, but the item is to be shipped somewhere
>else, and the IP is usually Nigeria or something.
>We have tried phoning the police before but they are not interested.
>Surely in these days where the crime of Identity theft is touted as a
>major threat, there must be *someone* who wants this evidence handed
>on?
>
>Where these look like clear cases of ID theft or duped card, we are
>now going to write to the cardholders address ourselves so that they
>can take action if necessary, but surely someone must be interested in
>these details so that they can track these people down? It's evidence
>isn't it?

Surely you have a policy as a small trader of only shipping to the
card holders address? Most online traders I have used  will do that
for a first order at least. I'm fairly sure even Amazon does that.

BTW both my wife and daughter were pleased with jewelry you sold me :)

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