Although, credit card fraud is a fast increasing crime in the world, the most vulnerable victims are international credit card holders. The problems of international credit cards holders includes the following:

#1. Most of the banking systems are not compatible with other international credit card companies for the e-commerce. This is a potential weakness that would mean loss of clients however, the banks prefer to keep quiet about it.

#2. Low standards when it comes to the use of cards by the participating merchants. This is a common problem encountered by international credit cardholders. Employees of the participating merchants have the full access to the account number as well as the security number of the card.

#3. Repetitive use of credit card numbers - After a credit card number has been used and disregarded, say cancelled, credit card companies would re-issue the same number to other cardholders. The personal identification numbers (PIN) is changed as well as the credit cardholder's personal information. But it still bears the same credit card number.

#4. Account Statements given out by credit card companies contains less information about the participating merchant. It does not include relevant information about the vendor that charged any transaction on the credit card.

#5. Lack of validation software - Participating vendors do not have appropriate software to validate data. Thus it is easy to conduct fraudulent activity. Proper validation software should be installed on computer systems to prevent this.

#6. Lax standards on investigation about fraudulent transactions - This is the sad part for the victims of fraud through their credit cards. Getting the suspects charged though proven guilty of fraud is very difficult.

#7. Unreliable blocking functions - Once a card is reported lost, it will still take months for the credit card companies to block the transactions being made through the stolen or lost credit card.

#8. Unfriendly policies on fraud management which do not favour the consumer. The policies on the present fraud management place the blame on the cardholders though not directly stipulated. This means that the policies on the fraud management of international credit card companies protect not the consumers but the company.

#9. Credit card fraud is usually committed through online transactions. This means that credit cardholders are not protected with the authorized or unauthorized use of their cards on purchases or services paid online.

#10. Most of the companies that typically appear on charges are those associated with pornography industry. These companies are the ones that accept transactions even without verifying the cardholder's information.

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