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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
Do you know when (or if) "this person" will get his account back? 
Don |
Well it wasn't a big issue. This was a secondary account created especially for this purpose, to test whether this would work or not.
One first try with real name and fake address succeeded, and the account got a bit of micropay credit out of the transaction. Then the genius owner of the account thought "Hey if I'm giving a fake address I might as well give a fake name so that I can't be tracked down in case something goes wrong!". This raised a warning from the bank however, and fictionwise printed a message saying that there seemed to be a problem with the transaction, please leave a phone number where the bank can get in touch with you, and until this is sorted out we're disabling book downloads from your shelf.
So of course it was not possible to leave a phone number in the US, and even if it had been possible I doubt it would have been possible to sort it out.
So basically "this person" did nothing about it. Nothing was charged from the credit card and the account must still exist but be unusable. All that was lost were a few dollars in micropay credit, and a great deal was learned about the security in credit card payment!
