Parallels System Automation delivers a comprehensive fraud screening system to automatically monitor online and offline transactions. Fraud screening results are integrated into your workflow process so you can automatically approve orders, manually approve orders, or reject orders depending upon the results of the fraud check.
Parallels System Automation includes over 20 pre-integrated fraud plug-ins that can be incorporated into your fraud screening process. The plug-ins are used to create fraud screening rules that can be individually weighted and assigned to specific workflows. This flexibility allows you to filter new orders differently from renewal orders and automated orders differently from manual orders.
After the fraud filter screens an order, potentially fraudulent tranactions can be placed into a manual order flow for review. If upon further review, the order is determined to be fraudulent, the reviewer can update the black list of credit cards and accounts with the click of a button. This integration makes it easy to maintain these lists in the regular course of doing business.
The table below is a list of pre-integrated fraud screening plug-ins. Some plug-ins which perform similar functions have been grouped together for presentation purposes.
Providers can integrate their existing fraud checks or write custom plug-ins using the Parallels System Automation API. Many Parallels System Automation deployments include additional checks which are then made available to help the service provider community fight fraud.
Plug-in Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Accounts per Credit Card | Checks the number of accounts associated with a single credit card. |
| Black Credit Cards Black Domains Black E-mail Addresses Black IP Addresses Black Phones Black Service Plans |
These plug-ins determine if the order is associated with any of the black lists maintained by the system. Credit cards, domain names, IP addresses, phone numbers, service plans, and e-mail addresses can all be black listed. |
| Cardholder Name | Determines if the payment cardholder's name matches the name of the account owner. |
| Cardholder Address | Determines if the payment cardholder's address matches their billing address. |
| Credit Card per Account | Checks the number of credit cards with a different cardholder name associated with a single customer account. |
| Fraudulent Password | Determines if the password matches a password from a fraudulent account. |
| GeoIP | These plug-ins determine if customer address or payment method address is associated with a potentially fraudulent country. The service provider configures the country list to match his markets. Two control parameters reside in separate plug-ins. |
| Excessive Usage | These plug-ins flag accounts or credit cards which have usage over a threshold determined by the service provider. |
| Login Name | Determines if the login name is associated with a trusted or non-trusted interval. |
| Lower Case Account Information |
Flags orders that are entered with all lower-case letters. |
| Orders Per Account | Determines the number of orders placed from one account. |
| Payment Confirmation | Determines if payments of certain payment systems from certain countries are to be processed manually. |
| Payment Verification | Verifies that the payment method is consistent with the customer's country and authorized by the payment processor. |
| Preauthorization | Submits credit card for pre-authorization on the stage of fraud screening (before creating payment). |
| Subscription Period | Determines if the subscription period exceeds a threshold set by the service provider. |
| Transaction Amount | Determines if a transaction is higher than a threshold determined by the service provider. |
| Zip Code | Verifies zip code parameters associated with US based orders. |
Service providers can build their own fraud plug-ins or integrate other plug-ins if they need to expand the functionality presented above.