GEO Location Validation - after an online payment sent by the merchant from the online website got approved by Data Validation it enters the GEO Location Validation. With the GEO Location Validation tool the Risk & Fraud Management system "looks" at several parameters.
With credit cards and debit cards it looks at the BIN (Bank Identification Number), locates the location where the credit card or debit card is issued, by which bank, in which country and at what city. The Risk & Fraud Management management system will now compare it to the consumers actual location by looking up the IP address of the consumer.
The Risk & Fraud Management system will calculate the distance between the location of the bank (where the credit card or debit card was issued) and the consumers IP address. The third parameter the Risk & Fraud Management system looks at is the given address details submitted with the online transaction.
A calculation is made on the distance between IP, BIN and the submitted location. Depending on the distance between those tree parameters the Risk & Fraud Management system will give a final GEO Location "score" that is taken in consideration on the final decission of putting the transaction in "pending", to "approve" or to "decline" the transaction.
With ACH, Echeck, Online Check and alternative payment processing the same is done but in stead of looking at the BIN number the Risk & Fraud Management system now looks at the bank account, ABA number and runs the same distance calculations as with credit cards and debit cards