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Old Sep 23, 2012 | 7:14 am
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Originally Posted by Globaliser
I'm sure that more could in theory be done. I agree with your impression that they seem to use a very limited set of information at the moment. But speculating for a moment, there might be serious resource implications if an authorisation request from a merchant (which is presumably what triggers the fraud alerts) had to include information such as proposed delivery address.
The merchant has the option of submitting the address* for verification if desired. If a positive address match is obtained, the merchant is protected against certain chargebacks.

*I believe all that's submitted is actually the house number and numeric part of postcode.
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