Lost and found management systems and methods

A lost and found management system in a server system, comprising:

• a memory comprising stored instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the stored instructions to cause the lost and found management system to perform at least:
• receiving one or more attributes of an identity document of a first party from a second party who found the identity document, the one or more attributes sent by the second party through an application interface associated with the server system;
• facilitating validation of the one or more attributes;
• upon successful validation, accessing information of an issuer of the identity document;
• and
• facilitating sending a notification to the issuer of a lost and found status of the identity document.

A lost and found management method for payment cards, the method comprising:

• facilitating, by a server system, an application interface to each of a first party and a second party, the application interface facilitated to the first party through a first issuer server associated with a payment card of the first party, the application interface facilitated to the second party through a second issuer server associated with a payment card of the second party;
• receiving, by the server system, a photograph of the payment card of the first party sent by the second party, wherein the first party has lost the payment card of the first party and the second party has found the payment card of the first party, and wherein the photograph is sent using the application interface installed on a user device of the second party;
• identifying, by the server system, whether the photograph of the payment card conform to one or more pre-defined formats by comparing the photograph against the one or more pre-defined formats;
• electronically identifying, by the server system, a card number or a name of an issuer bank of the payment card from the photograph;
• accessing, by the server system, a Bank Identification Number (BIN) database to obtain an address of the issuer bank based on the card number or the name of the issuer bank;
• facilitating, by the server system, generation of a printable document containing the address of the issuer bank for sending the payment card to the issuer bank in an envelope containing the printable document;
• and
• sending, by the server system, a notification of the printable document to the application interface of the first party and to the application interface of the second party.