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Originally Posted by HarryT
You'd be amazed. The company who sells my computer software gets endless orders for literally EVERY product in their online store using stolen credit cards, which are endemic in East Africa. People don't care WHAT they buy with stolen cards as long as they think that they can re-sell it. I know that eBooks can't be re-sold, but most of the people using such cards wouldn't realise that.
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But, why would the vendor care? My understanding is that Visa/Mastercard (at least in the US) protect the CC holder and the merchant from fraud. As long as the merchant gets an approval for the purchase they have the cash. The CC company eats any fraudulent charges not the vendor or CC holder.
Unless this vendor does not have a real time commerce system that get's CC approvals, then I guess I could understand it.
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