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by tmcz26 954 days ago
You can check any credit card issued on your name in Banco Central’s Registrato page[0]. Credit card, loans, etc.

However, HIGHLY unlikely they issue a card in your name and purchase stuff in your name online. If they have a card with them, they’ll go to physical stores and leave with the product with them immediately.

Typically (as I said above) they have purchased a stolen CC number online and are using it until it gets blocked or run out of balance/limit.

In any case, there’s zero fallout for you, the victim. These retailers are used to this (0,5% of transactions turn into fraud), so they’ll eventually figure out it’s fraud and they know it wasn’t you. They know you’re a victim too.

[0] https://registrato.bcb.gov.br/registrato/

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