Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for canary card identifiers for real-time usage alerts. A user associated with an organization, such as an employee of a company, are provided a payment instrument or card affiliated with that company to make one or more purchases. In order to prevent or limit fraud, as well as detect fraudulent actors, the organization utilizes multiple card identifiers and/or payment cards, where a portion of those identifiers are valid, and another portion are not valid but marked for generation of one or more alerts on use of that portion of identifiers. A monitoring and alert system resides on top of an electronic transaction processing network to detect use of the marked identifiers. If detected, a real-time alert is then transmitted to the organization with data associated with the use of the marked identifiers.

Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for canary card identifiers for real-time usage alerts. A user associated with an organization, such as an employee of a company, may utilize a payment instrument or card affiliated with that company to make one or more purchases. In order to prevent or limit fraud, as well as detect fraudulent actors, the organization may be provided with multiple card identifiers and/or payment cards, where a portion of those identifiers are valid, and another portion are not valid but marked for generation of one or more alerts on use of that portion of identifiers. A monitoring and alert system may reside on top of an electronic transaction processing network and may detect use of the marked identifiers. If detected, a real-time alert may be transmitted to the organization that may receive data associated with the use of the marked identifiers.