Bjorn_Iceland - 9:08 pm on Jun 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

radeckd:

How to verify if purchase isn't fraudlent if customer use credit card issued by philippines financial institution. I can't run AVS on it on the top of that he wants me to ship it to company transporting cargo which is located within US and they will somehow deliver it to him.

This has several red flags of the classic scam, and certainly I would not recommend accepting it as others have said.

However, if you have the first 6 digits of the credit card number you can lookup the bank name and customer service number of the bank that issued the card.

(The first 6 digits are the BIN - Bank Identification Number.)

Certainly you will find it difficult to get anything out of the issuing institution unless you have the authorization code from them for this transaction and your merchant ID with Visa or MasterCard to quote, and even then you will not be able to find out much.

[edited by: Bjorn_Iceland at 9:08 pm (utc) on June 23, 2008]