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Credit cards act as a "cost" of sorts. Credit cards are a limited resource, it is not free to acquire more credit cards. By requiring a valid credit card you ar
by kevincox 5y ago
Credit cards act as a "cost" of sorts. Credit cards are a limited resource, it is not free to acquire more credit cards. By requiring a valid credit card you are basically relying upon the verification that credit card issuers do to prevent unlimited abuse.
- inetknght 5y ago> Credit cards are a limited resource > it is not free to acquire more credit cards If a user is malicious then they quite probably have access to malicious cards too. Moreover, you're locking out users who don't want to give you their card just to try a service.
- tshaddox 5y agoThere are probably a lot more casual trolls than there are straight up criminals with stolen credit card numbers.
- netizen-936824 5y agoIts not free to acquire credit cards? In what country? I constantly get free offers on the mails, plus there are services to generate temporary card numbers for throwaway
- micromacrofoot 5y agobad actors are usually looking for low friction, it’s like running away from a bear… you don’t need to be the fastest person, you just don’t want to be the slowest
- function_seven 5y agoYou're probably not going to go through the hassle of generating or applying for 1,000 credit cards in order to abuse some trial period on a SaaS service. Maybe you do it a few times. It's the automated bots that a CC prevents. Even with "free" credit cards or generated numbers, there's a lot of friction in going through that to abuse the service's trial period.
- Msw242 5y agoVirtual cards solve this. Create a card with $1 limit. Problem solved.
- ipaddr 5y agoIn one country but this isn't an option globally
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