I worked for a company that scanned credit card transactions for fraudulent behavior and it was remarkable how reliable the correlation between stolen credit ca

I worked for a company that scanned credit card transactions for fraudulent behavior and it was remarkable how reliable the correlation between stolen credit cards and iTunes purchases were. Identity thieves almost always tried to spend $0.99 as a test purchase and then hundreds or thousands of dollars of iTunes gift cards. Apple probably doesn't want to rely on the credit card companies to catch this if they can do it themselves.