What strategy does Visa take against phishing?
Visa employs multiple layers of protection to guard against phishing attacks against the Visa brand, its customers, and its products, programs and services. Our detection, site blocking, and site shutdown program is administered via a central, anti-fraud command center, hosted by a leading anti-pharming/anti-phishing service provider with a service contract that has been in place since 2004. In addition, the anti-phishing service provider monitors millions of emails daily, via feeds from multiple partners (e.g. Microsoft, AOL/Netscape, EarthLink, internet browsers, and proprietary feeds), and has standing orders to shut down confirmed fraudulent sites. Visa’s service provider maintains a 24/7 command center, staffed with 40 fraud analysts. The command center has multi-lingual capabilities, and may be able to shut down sites domestically or internationally.
