[philipwhiuk]

I hope they're prepared for the wave of fraudulent card transactions.

[prepend]

Id expect they are. And that will allow them to shut off more accounts.

[ceejayoz]

The people making those charges don't care about the accounts; they're using the $1 charge to test that the stolen card details work before going and buying a $500 gift card somewhere else.

The victim eventually does a chargeback, which are expensive and risk your merchant account.

[prepend]

> they're using the $1 charge to test that the stolen card details work before going and buying a $500 gift card somewhere else

Why would they start using twitter for this rather than the current merchants they use?

[SXX]

Yeah they'll get even more money. Unlike small businesses or startups their payment processor not going to get rid of them for those refunds.