This filter screens the full Ship To address against a list of addresses of freight forwarders managed by PayPal.
Unlike the other Risk Lists, the Freight Forwarder Risk List was not developed through statistical evaluation of e-commerce transactions. Rather, this is a list of know addresses associated with freight forwarders.
The specified action is taken whenever a shipping address matches the address of a known freight forwarding service.
The Freight Forwarder filter requires a valid US shipping address. If the USPS Address Validation filter determines that the address does not exist, then the Freight Forwarder filter is skipped and placed in the Unused Filters list on the Transaction Details page.
Freight forwarding services enable a customer to open an account using the forwarder’s corporate address, but then have all packages automatically forwarded to another end destination. While there are legitimate uses for a freight forwarding service, forwarders also enable fraudsters to hide their true location.
Whenever a customer orders delivery to a freight forwarder, you should research the transaction more closely.