Payscout Inc.

In 2017, online shoppers spent $453.46 billion in the United States alone. With profit potential that great, every business with a product or service that can be offered online is either doing so or risking being left behind.Wherever there’s money to be made, however, there are people rushing to learn how best to steal it. The ubiquity of plastic as the payment method of choice online has resulted in a thriving underworld industry of debit and credit card fraud. And unfortunately for online vendors, one of the most common forms of card fraud is “card not present” theft. Online vendors don’t have the luxury of checking ID to be sure the names match. That being said, there are a number of relatively simple steps that e-merchants can take to mitigate the risk of online card fraud. Tokenization One of the best ways in general to reduce fraud risk is to contract with a trusted, established payment processing institution. An experienced payment processing firm should be...

Ecommerce has emerged as a monumental market presence, and along with it, the vast, destructive shadow world of hacking and digital fraud has evolved equally as rapidly. Neither of these trends should be overlooked by brick-and-mortar business owners, whose very livelihoods depend on addressing potential threats to their businesses. Unfortunately, it’s often the proprietors and managers of brick-and-mortar businesses themselves overlooking said vulnerabilities. And in an age of mobile payment processing and dynamic points of sale, it can be an expensive oversight. But it’s not that these people are necessarily lax or indifferent about security. It’s not uncommon for a location’s management and even risk-management policymakers to invest in robust loss-prevention strategies and institute strict check-vetting and acceptance, while overlooking one of the most common, insidious, and expensive security vulnerabilities: debit and credit card fraud. Fortunately, there are ...