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>Fraudulently buying a pizza isn't really all that much payoff for our fraudsters after all. Although they will sometimes do that as a test before making a big
by Ichthypresbyter 5y ago
>Fraudulently buying a pizza isn't really all that much payoff for our fraudsters after all.
Although they will sometimes do that as a test before making a bigger purchase. When my mother's card was cloned, the first fraudulent purchase was a coffee or sandwich at a railway station in a different city (but one close enough that it was believable she might have been there). Her bank only alerted her the next day when it was used to buy jewelry.
- notahacker 5y agoBut I think the low cost stuff just gets eaten by the parties involved (I once had a stolen card used to make a single $1 payment on iTunes. Refund was as automatic as the new cards and I doubt Apple or the bank cared at all). Not so much when theres $1k at stake and the distinct possibility that the customer, the merchant or both could be lying