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by orbz 964 days ago
They’ll often check the referrer or other information in the request to determine whether they should attempt the scam or redirect to an innocuous site to confound people investigating the scam.
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Ah, thanks.

I was hoping to send in a few (randomly generated) credit card numbers.

I did that with the simpler version from before; the posts were received anyway, though I don't know what happened beyond that.