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Anecdata to the contrary, I've seen no suspicious activity on my Linode-associated card.

• ChuckMcM 13y ago
  Yet? One of the things I've learned by reading Danchev and other blogs on the scourge of credit card fraud is that 'carders' seem to have waaaaaay more cards than they need so the turnaround time between having it be made public and having it used can be quite long. So far for me every time one of my cards has been compromised there was a small charge that went through before the bigger charges came in. And my bank has been pretty good about effectively freezing things as soon as that small charge hits. Given all the big data stuff on my 'work' cards (like gas card which is only used to buy fuel) it should be instantly obvious if a charge is bogus coming from a non-gas station. But I digress. I wish someone would set up a 'whitelist only' type credit card where I could first do a small test charge, then I could authorize that source with my bank, and then their regular charges would go through. But if the number was compromised any attempt to use it anywhere that I hadn't pre-approved would be rejected.
  • rosser 13y ago
    Fair enough. "Yet." I've also noticed the same pattern with compromised cards: a couple of small auths to test the waters, and then increasingly large charges coming from decreasingly likely places. I regularly log onto my online banking and inspect the recent activity looking for exactly that kind of activity. I've long wished for the same, "whitelist-only card" type thing, too. I think I might smell an opportunity...