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Article: What's New.
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- Collections & Credit Risk
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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TU Tackles Skimming
TransUnion, a Chicago-based global information provider, is fighting back against an industry problem known as skimming, which most often involves a retail or restaurant employee swiping a credit card through a small, illegal reader. The "skimmer" copies data encoded on a card's magnetic stripe so the criminal can create a counterfeit card. A TransUnion product, called Common Point of Purchase, creates a pooled database of historical data about all known skimmed cards from multiple credit card portfolios. The aggregated data is then analyzed to identify places where skimming repeatedly occurs. When a "common merchant" is found, TransUnion ...
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