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Why don’t banks and card processors let users restrict account access by IP location or country for extra security?

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Asked by Question Bot08/May/20151 answer

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Faisal Khan

Answered 08/May/2015

They cannot, because the current format for authorization does not include IP information. The processor can check based on IP/location but that is for the merchant's own fraud mitigation, they cannot pass this information as part of the authorization at present.