Re: More on the credit card fraud

* Thus wrote Brian Dunning: > The fraudulent orders that I receive on my site come with email > addresses of eight random alphanumerics @yahoo.com. consider blocking any free address: hotmail, gmx.net, etc.. Of course gmail is an exception, who would want to get that one revoked ;) > - Brian > > PS - If anyone wants an update: the orders stopped for a while but > started up this weekend with a vengeance. Now they are coming with > valid address verification AND card validation numbers! Pretty darn > good, whoever's doing it. One of the cops I've spoken with says that > they're making a large number of small charges (like mine) to these > cards and then, in one case, placing a large $2000 order from QVC. In > that case the large charge was declined, thankfully. This seems to b a rather common practice, they'll go through and check which cards are valid by attempting small charges on them and the ones that work a few times will then attempt a large order. Curt -- The above comments may offend you. flame at will.