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May 22, 2016, 7:17 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by christep

Unless things have changed recently, there is no way for the merchant to validate the address given when making a credit card purchase, except for US issued and addressed cards, and even then only the zipcode is validated.

It probably depends on the level of Address Verification the merchant is attempting. With BA they verify several fields.

When I worked for LY in LON 13 years ago, and I was using a standalone credit card terminal to run cards, I had to enter the house number and numbers from the postcode along with the card info for the transaction. If the info was wrong, the transaction would either decline, or give an auth code with warning that the transaction was not protected by address verification.

Amadeus has a similar function built in. BA use it as well as a more detailed verification system. It works with cards of multiple nationalities.