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Credit Card Fraud
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Merchants, who accept credit cards when the credit cards are not present, such as MOTO and Internet retailers, do not have the ability to confirm the signature. To protect themselves, they use the Address Verification Service (AVS). This service remains useful, but is limited in the anonymous environment of the Internet. This is especially true when the product or service for sale is electronically downloaded, but the limitations ... impact merchants selling physical goods and even auction sites.
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