Easy ways to avoid Match List & TMF
If you find your business on the TMF or MATCH list, and you need to know how you got listed, reach out to your service provider and they can help you understand the exact reason. You need to contact the previous bank with whom you had merchant services previously. Request them to give you the reason and reason code under which you were added to the MATCH. You should know from the bank how to get off the MATCH or TMF. MasterCard, in general, puts the merchant for 5 years in the MATCH list. In case of fraud, you are highly unlikely to get off the list. Then, you do not have any option than incorporating a new company. Why are Merchants added to MATCH or TMF? Having a huge number of chargebacks on a monthly basis. The merchant owes money to the bank. Merchant caught practicing fraudulent activity such as money laundering. Illegal-product or Advertisement. Disclosing information of profit to the customer. All in all, violating the terms of a ...