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by prepend 980 days ago
Id expect they are. And that will allow them to shut off more accounts.
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ceejayoz 980 days ago
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.

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prepend 980 days ago
> 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?

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