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by JohnTHaller 3257 days ago
> you will become an API for fraudsters to check the validity of Visa numbers.

Anyone accepting donations via PayPal
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Cthulhu_ 3257 days ago
It's PayPal that needs to check that stuff then. And even then fraud can occur to one's service.
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JohnTHaller 3256 days ago
Except they refuse to. So you see a constant stream of $0.01 to $0.03 donations. You have to manually refund every one of them out of your own PayPal balance or you get hit with a $25 chargeback fee.
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