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Suspicious Transaction Filter

The Suspicious Transaction Filter enables you to manage suspicious transactions using a complex set of criteria. These criteria are unique to the payment gateway's transaction history and its merchants and are used to detect and identify certain types of suspicious transactions. Because this filter is managed by the Fraud Management Team, no custom settings are available.
For your protection, the Suspicious Transaction Filter cannot decline transactions. Because the filter is based on a more general set of criteria, there is a high probability that valid transactions might trigger this filter.
Consider the following details when configuring this filter:
  • If you select
    Authorize and hold for review
     as the filter action, you should approve or void held transactions within 72 hours.
  • When a transaction triggers more than one filter, and each filter is configured with a different action, the most severe filter action is applied to the transaction. For example, suppose that you configure filter A to decline all triggered transactions, and you configure filter B to authorize but hold all triggered transactions. If a transaction triggers both filters A and B, it is declined rather than authorized and held for review.
For details on how to configure Advanced Fraud Detection Suite filters, see Enabling, Disabling, and Configuring Filters in the Advanced Fraud Detection Suite (AFDS).