Highlights:
- These best practices were prepared by a coalition of financial institutions, Internet service providers, online payment processors and others to help prevent commercial child pornography over the Internet.
- Some coalition members have used these methods in their application of underwriting, verification, and monitoring processes to assist in detecting child pornographers and preventing them from establishing and maintaining merchant accounts.
- Institutions that would like to take a more proactive role in this effort may find the information useful in developing methods that would work best for them.
Continuation of FIL-72-2007
Distribution:
FDIC-Supervised Institutions
Suggested Routing:
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Officers
Related Topics:
Child Pornography
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Merchant Processing
Attachment:
Internet Merchant Acquisition Best Practices for the Prevention and Detection of Commercial Child Pornography7 - PDF 290KB (PDF Help)
Contact:
Michael Benardo, Chief, Cyber Fraud and Financial
Crimes Section, at (202) 898-7319 or
mbenardo@fdic.gov
Printable Format:
FIL-72-2007 - PDF (PDF Help)
Note:
FDIC financial institution letters (FILs) may be
accessed from the FDIC's Web site at
www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2007/index.html.
To receive FILs electronically, please visit
http://www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/fil.html.
Paper copies of FDIC financial institution letters
may be obtained through the FDIC's Public
Information Center, 3501 Fairfax Drive, E-1002,
Arlington, VA 22226 (1-877-275-3342 or 703-562-
2200).
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