Banks treat unauthorized charges as valid whenever they cannot recover funds from the merchant
A bank denies a customers unauthorized-transaction dispute, explaining that if the bank itself cannot retrieve funds from the merchant, it considers the charge valid by default, regardless of the merchants fraud history. This effectively shifts fraud losses onto the customer whenever the banks own merchant recovery process fails.
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