Address Verification Service. A process by which travel agents can protect themselves from liability in the event of a credit card chargeback. See Section 8.4 of the IAH for further details.
Address Verification Service. Service available in US only for Visa, M/C, proprietary and private label cards. Used to reduce fraudulent mail and phone order transactions by verifying cardholder's billing address before (or at time of) authorization. Is performed through a merchants terminal.
Address Verification Service. AVS is a service that helps reduce chargebacks and fraud by verifying a cardholder’s billing address with the credit card company before the transaction is approved. AVS is used to reduce the risk involved in Mail Order and Telephone Order transactions.
Address Verification Service. Visa's fraud-reduction service. You use AVS to verify a cardholder's billing address before you make a mail or phone transaction.
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Address Verification Service. A fraud-prevention mechanism that verifies that the customer address matches the credit card. This ensures that merchandise is shipped to a legitimate customer.
Age Verification System was a concept that appeared when porn first started surfacing on the Net. The general train of thought is that credit card = adult. But few AVS systems are actually verifiying age of consent, and children these days have access to their parents credit cards, so AVS in not always an appropriate deterrent for minors. Some countries, like Germany, have real and complicated AVS sign-up procedures. True AVS is starting to break some ground in the United States. AVS systems can be good sources of gay porn: you pay one price and get access to thousands of galleries put together by different webmasters.
Age (or Adult) Verification Scheme - these operate on the quaint notion that charging money to a credit card account somehow "confirms" you are an adult.
A service used to verify that the billing address and zip code supplied by the customer match the address where credit card statements are sent that is on record at the card-issuing bank. The purpose of AVS is to reduce the likelihood of fraud, and so the discount rate is usually lower. Unfortunately, AVS is supported in the US & UK only.
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Address Verification Service. Verifies the cardholder's billing address at the time of the authorization request. If someone uses a stolen card AVS can detect this for you. If the address doesn't match, the transaction can still be approved at the merchant's discretion.
Address Verification Service. A fraud protection service created by Visa and MasterCard that checks a shopper's billing address against the card processor's existing address record for the shopper. AVS returns a code that indicates how well the addresses match. It is up to you, the merchant, to consider the risk associated with each AVS code and to decide whether to ship the goods, contact the shopper for additional information, or simply ignore a potentially fraudulent order. To receive the best discount rate from your acquiring bank, you must use the AVS service when processing transactions on the Internet.
A service provided by Visa and MasterCard that checks to match the street number and zip code of the cardholder's address. It provides a level of fraud protection that helps to prevent fraud and chargebacks.
Also known as Address Verification Scheme, this check allows the numerics of the address and postcodes entered by your customer to be checked against the statement address held by the issuing bank. This is part of the AVSCV2 check
Address Verification System. A validation method used to inform merchants about the accuracy of their customer's address. AVS responses are automatically sent when transactions with address information are processed
Address Verification System; a credit card processing security measure provided with credit card equipment that checks the billing address and zip code of a credit card that is going through credit card authorization
Address Verification Service - a facility that allows a CNP merchant to check the numerical digits from a cardholder's billing address. Back to the top
Address Verification System: is a service provided by a processor that offers additional features to validate the purchaser as the rightful cardholder by verifying whether the address submitted by the purchaser matches the billing address on file with Visa.
Address Verification System is a security / fraud protection system that helps protect merchants against fraudulent purchases on stolen credit cards.
Address Verification Service. Basic fraud screening that matches the address information entered by the customer to the address information on file with the issuing bank.
A product designed to combat fraud predominantly in Internet; mail order or telephone order transactions through usage of cardholders name and address information.
(Age Verification Service, Adult Verification Service, Age Verification System): see Adult Entertaiment Network
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(Address Verification System) A fraud prevention feature built into most credit card transaction processing equipment that runs an automatic check in order to verify that the billing address given by the customer matches the billing address for the credit card that is presented for payment.
Address Verification System. An automated system that allows merchants who accept card-not-present (CNP) transactions via the phone, mail order or the Internet to verify the billing address of cardholders.
Address Verification Services. AVS is a credit card processing feature used in the United States to verify a cardholder's billing address. This feature provides fraud screening help for Internet transactions.
Address Verification Service. A method of reducing fraud in mail order/telephone order transactions by using cardholder billing address information in the authorization request.
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Address Verification Service. AVS is a tool for merchants to reduce the risk associated with card not present transactions, such as mail order, telephone order or Internet transactions. The billing address given by the customer is passed in the transaction and it is checked against the billing address on file at the customer's card issuing bank.
Address Verification Service. The process of validating a cardholder's given address against the issuer's records, to determine accuracy and deter fraud. This service is provided as part of a credit card authorization for mail order/telephone order transactions. A code is returned with the authorization result that indicates the level of accuracy of the address match and helps secure the most favorable interchange rates.
Address Verification System. Process used by a credit card processor or other party to verify that a customer's billing address matches that of their credit card statement.
Address Verification System. A system built into the authorization process that enables a merchant to verify the United States billing address of the customer to be the billing address the Issuing bank currently has on file.
Address Verification Service. A system that compares the numeric portion of the customer's street address and the zip code against the information on file with the card- issuing bank. The Gateway provides an AVS code in each approved transaction result code that tells you how well the two addresses match. If they match, there is a lower probability of fraud. If there is a discrepancy in either the address or zip code, the probability of fraud is higher. Merchants can use AVS codes to help protect themselves from chargebacks and fraud.
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Address Verification Service. Address Verification Service is used as a means of reducing fraud for credit card transactions in the U.S. It uses the US Zip code as a means of validating the authenticity of the customer.
Address Verification Service. AVS allows merchants that accept card-not-present transactions to compare the billing address (the address to which the card issuer sends its monthly statement for that account) given by a customer with the billing address on the card issuer's master file before shipping an order. AVS helps merchants minimize the risk of accepting fraudulent transactions in a card-not-present environment by indicating the result of the address comparison.
Address Verification Service. AVS is a tool for merchants to reduce the risk associated with non-face-to-face transactions, such as mail order or telephone order. A merchant using AVS (must have equipment that is AVS-compatible).
Address Verification Service. A system established by the credit card processing associations to verify customer billing addresses submitted with e-commerce payment transactions. Though AVS does not verify the legitimacy of a transaction, Card Not Present merchants can use AVS to accept or decline transactions based on the validity of the billing address information provided by the customer.
Address Verification Service. The AVS service is provided as part of a credit card transactionm, and validates a credit card holder address with issuer records in order to ensure accuracy and minimize fraud. A code is returned with the authorization, which indicates the level of accuracy of the address match-up.
Address Verification Service. A service aimed at reducing fraud in mail or telephone order transactions by using cardholder billing address information in the authorization request.
Address Verification System. Checks to see that the billing address given by the customer matches the credit card. If you opt not to use AVS, VISA and MasterCard will not support your transactions and will charge you an additional 1.25% on those sales. Most merchant accounts come with AVS at no extra charge.
Address Verification Service - a service supported by Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express that verifies the cardholder's billing address against the one on file with the issuer. AVS is designed to help combat fraud in non-face-to-face transactions. For a list of AVS response codes, click here.
Address Verification Service. A service that verifies the cardholder's billing address in order to help combat fraud in card-not-present transactions (e.g. mail order, telephone order, internet, etc.). Used only in the United States.
ADDRESS VERIFICATION SERVICE. AVS is a tool for merchants to reduce the risk associated with card not present transactions, such as mail order, telephone order or Internet transactions. It is a system built into the authorization process that enables a merchant to verify a United States billing address of a customer to the same billing address the Issuing bank has on file. ADJUSTMENT An adjustment is initiated by the acquirer to correct a processing error. The error could be a duplication of a transaction or the result of a cardholder dispute. The acquirer debits or credits the merchant DDA account for the dollar amount of the adjustment.
Address Verification System. service that checks to see if the billing address given by the customer matches the credit card.
In 1996, Visa/MasterCard headquarters introduced a new regulation requiring all businesses who manually key in the majority of their credit card transactions to have a special fraud prevention feature on their credit card processing equipment. This feature is referred to as an address verification system (it checks to see that the billing address given by the customer matches the credit card). If you opt not to use AVS, VISA and MasterCard will not support your transactions and will charge you an additional 1.25% on those sales.
AVS is a possible alternative codec to H.264/AAC/Vorbis http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=112792 Forum discussion of AVS and is meant to potentially replace MPEG-2. China companies own 90% patents of AVS. http://www.avs.org.cn/en/index.asp AVS official web site The audio and video files have an .avs extension as a container format, and the designers claim that it will have twice the efficiency of MPEG2.