Country Risk List Match Filter

What does the filter do?

This filter screens the customer’s shipping and billing address information for matches with countries on PayPal’s list of high-risk countries.

The specified action is taken whenever any of the information matches a country on the risk list.

What is a Risk List?

To learn more about PayPal's Risk List, refer to About Risk List Filters.

How does the filter protect me?

Orders from customers in foreign countries are more likely to be fraudulent than orders from domestic customers. This is due to the difficulty of authenticating foreign citizens and the difficulty of cross-border legal enforcement against fraudulent activities.

Certain countries, however, are much riskier than others. These countries have high likelihood of fraud and you should evaluate transactions from these countries closely.