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A Membership payment was made successfully using our Contribute form with a new contact created such as:

name: fffff fffff

address: asdadad 4 davie, FL 33328 United States

email:

jdchjffdjhf@gmail.com

Contribution says paid by Credit Card, and there is also a transaction/invoice ID.

Why is CiviCRM Paypal WPP processor allowing this contribution which obviously appears to be fraudulent? Is this due to our set up

Thank you.

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PayPal also offers some fraud filters. There's a decent starting set that come with PayPal Pro (they also offer more advanced ones for a monthly fee), their customer service is pretty good if you call and ask for some help with them and explain about the transactions you suspect are fraudulent.

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I am not certain what can be done to stop people 'testing' if stolen credit card details if that is what is happening. There is a blog about it and an old forum topic you might glean something from

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  • Thanks. What's alarming is it happened within the same week for two installs on separate sites, its almost like Civi is being targeted for this testing. Does a CAPTCHA on the registration form prevent this - do you think they are mostly drive-by's done by automated scripts?
    – Zachary
    Mar 19 '16 at 1:17
  • reCaptcha on sites helps to prevent spambots. Are the sites receiving the money? Wild guesses: perhaps there is some attempt to defraud PayPal going on if you are not getting the money or if a refund is immediately requested, or perhaps there is an intent to verify the card number.
    – Joe Murray ♦
    Mar 20 '16 at 19:04
  • According to Paypal (we called) the fraudulent payments aren't covered by seller protection because we didn't require a shipping address. So we have to either keep the funds until something happens, or issue a refund (at our slight expense).
    – Zachary
    Mar 24 '16 at 1:09
  • updated answer with link to other post about flood control
    – petednz - fuzion ♦
    Mar 24 '16 at 2:22
  • Does CiviCRM support anything like this for Paypal Website Payment Pro? paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing_CommandDriven/… Yes, it is being used on a couple of my sites to test stolen credit cards. The other posts aren't too helpful because I don't believe it is a drive-by bot operation, but I have enabled captcha just in case.
    – Zachary
    Apr 9 '16 at 18:25

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