Amadeus Payment Fraud Prevention

Amadeus Payment Fraud Prevention Secure payment acceptance and reduce chargebacks

Amadeus Payment Fraud Prevention Overview

Fraud Prevention offers a powerful set of automated and configurable checks to identify and prevent fraud on all sales channels. It is a complement to the authentication methods developed by the payment industry such as 3D Secure. Amadeus has integrated the robust and innovative Retail Decisions fraud management solution already used by a large number of airlines as well as some banks and Payment Service Providers.

Main Amadeus Payment Fraud Prevention Features

  • Fully integrated with the booking and ticketing flow e.g. automatic booking cancellation in case of obvious fraud, automatic void following manual fraud analyst review
  • Collect all the necessary data (location, passenger details ….) for fraud screening making the solution unique in term of richness of data
  • Support different fraud strategies per channel
  • Offer state of the art fraud checks: PRISM neural solution, screening database, Dynamic Proprietary Rules Engine, Velocity and Pattern Detection Engines, Bank Identification Number (BIN) Data, IP-ID Geolocation, PC ID / PC Fingerprinting, "Gibberish" Filter
  • Available through the Retail Decisions (ReD) solution named ReD Shield

Business impact

  • Revenue gain / protection

    Improve profitability by reducing payment fraud level and related financial loss

    Offer secured payment acceptance enabling airlines to meet conditions to reduce their merchant service charge

    Decrease charge-backs level and therefore associated risk for merchant to breach the MasterCard Excessive Chargeback Program (ECP) and the Visa Global Merchant Chargeback Monitoring Program (GMCMP)

  • Efficient IT model

    One-stop-shop for a seamless integrated fraud prevention solution, incorporated in the payment acceptance processing

Who can use it?

All customers having Amadeus Card Acceptance can use Fraud Prevention.

Why take it?

  • Seamless integration of ReD Shield within the complete booking lifecycle, covering all channels and Methods of Payment, and Including PNR updates, voids, refunds etc
  • Enable airlines to benefit from richness of data (location, passenger details ….) for fraud screening