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Small charges on stolen credit cards are usually to test if the card is still valid. Hence charities are popular to test on too.
by the-dude 9y ago
Small charges on stolen credit cards are usually to test if the card is still valid.
Hence charities are popular to test on too.
- _susanoo 9y agoSo I guess credit card frauds are human too
- LV-426 9y agoAh, okay, makes sense (in an evil way). It just sounded like it was a sudden wave after the site had become more popular, but it maybe just appeared on the radar of scammers as well as the competition.
- bemmu 9y agoI have long stopped telling people whether their charge worked if an order looks suspicious, to prevent them from getting this information. So that wouldn't work now.
- the-dude 9y agoI am not sure I follow, could you clarify? You do send a confirmation after sign up I presume?
- homero 9y agoCan't find it but he had a whole blog post about it
- bemmu 9y agoWell I can't say "your payment was processed successfully", because that would give information to people who want to test cards. Rather I manually read through the orders, and only contact people if something went wrong with their payment AND the order doesn't look suspicious.
- the-dude 9y agoAre you on Stripe?