In the expanding world of ecommerce credit card fraud, here’s an interesting scam.You might have seen sites offering gift cards for a discount.  You probably figured it was way for folks to pocket some money by simply by selling a gift card they did not want.  Sounds innocent, right?Instead, a..

Everyone has read about the rise in cross border payments.  And the growth is real. Yet, international payments usually make up less than 2% of a country’s total transaction volume.  Banks in most countries have long focused on the immediate and largest market, which are payments inside..

Compliance is Necessary to Keep You SafeDoes every company have to comply with PCI DSS security regulations which protect cardholder information?You bet they do.Any merchant or payment provider which stores, processes, and/or transmits cardholder data must be PCI DSS compliant.  Regardless of how..

Most internet merchants are now requiring consumers to enter the three or four digit number on the back of the credit card as part of the checkout process.  The three digit code is known by several names:  Card Verification Value (CVV); Card Validation Code (CVC); and Card ID (CID).The theory is..