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E-commerce vocabulary · Payments and Fraud Prevention

Card testing

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In e-commerce, card testing means: Fraudulent attempts to determine whether stolen or guessed payment card details can be used successfully.

In Turkish: kart bilgilerinin geçerliliğini yoklama

How it is used

Fraud teams investigate card testing when repeated unusual payment attempts appear; the term does not mean testing a legitimate integration.

Example sentences

  1. A sudden burst of failed payments led the team to investigate card testing.

    The pattern raises suspicion, but investigation is still needed to identify its cause.

  2. The report separated suspected card testing from ordinary checkout errors.

    This distinction prevents an abuse pattern from being treated as normal shopper difficulty.

Common collocations

  • card testing attack
  • detect card testing
  • suspected card testing
  • fraud detectionChecking orders and payments for signs of fraud, such as stolen cards or fake accounts, often with software that gives each order a risk score.
  • payment gatewayA service that securely sends a customer's card or other payment details from the online store to the banks and returns whether the payment is approved.

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