Credit card fraud

[Martinus]

*cough* porn *cough*

There exist people who pay for porn? 

Not everyone prefers vanilla. 

[HVC]

*cough* porn *cough*

There exist people who pay for porn? 

Not everyone prefers vanilla. 

you can get all the party flavours you want for free too. For every fetish you have there's someone out there with the same fetish and a collection he's willing to share

[The Brain]

How good is public domain porn?

[Martinus]

*cough* porn *cough*

There exist people who pay for porn? 

Not everyone prefers vanilla. 

you can get all the party flavours you want for free too. For every fetish you have there's someone out there with the same fetish and a collection he's willing to share

There's not enough of this for a daily wank, and most of it is rather poor quality.

[Martinus]

How good is public domain porn?

On average pretty crappy but can be good. The problem is lack of consistent quality.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Hey for the real weirdos, there's now PETA porn:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/peta-porn-site_n_931509.html

So how pornographic will PETA go? According to Rajt, it will have enough adult content to qualify for the XXX domain site but also some other graphic images of animals that viewers may not expect to see.

Australia's Herald Sun reports that "PETA's sexy side displayed in galleries and videos will quickly give way to the sinister world of animal mistreatment uncovered by the group's hidden camera investigations in a very different kind of graphic content."

[The Brain]

Hey for the real weirdos, there's now PETA porn:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/peta-porn-site_n_931509.html

So how pornographic will PETA go? According to Rajt, it will have enough adult content to qualify for the XXX domain site but also some other graphic images of animals that viewers may not expect to see.

Australia's Herald Sun reports that "PETA's sexy side displayed in galleries and videos will quickly give way to the sinister world of animal mistreatment uncovered by the group's hidden camera investigations in a very different kind of graphic content."

Good luck finding people who are interested in both BDSM and bestiality.

[viper37]

"Executive stress release (not covered by provincial medicare)" 

If you were a fiscalist, I might have a job for you

Turns out they were already aware of the fraud.  7 other transactions happened between my account statement and today, all in Euros or US$.
They've already cancelled my card, but they never called me...  Weird.  I'll have to sign an affidavit as you said, I should get in the mail pretty soon.

I wonder what happens to the merchants who authorized the card, assuming there's no fraud on their part, are they still getting paid for their transaction?

[Maximus]

I am under the impression that that is a part of the service that a company like Visa provides-- an assurance that you won't get screwed by using/accepting the card. That would apply both to the cardholder and the merchant.

[derspiess]

I am under the impression that that is a part of the service that a company like Visa provides-- an assurance that you won't get screwed by using/accepting the card. That would apply both to the cardholder and the merchant.

The bank that issues the card ends up absorbing the losses (minus whatever few items they're able to charge back to the merchant).  Visa only forces them to do so.

[HVC]

I am under the impression that that is a part of the service that a company like Visa provides-- an assurance that you won't get screwed by using/accepting the card. That would apply both to the cardholder and the merchant.

The bank that issues the card ends up absorbing the losses (minus whatever few items they're able to charge back to the merchant).  Visa only forces them to do so.

i do know that credit card companies charge based on risk of fraud. As a vender you pay over twice as much to the credit card for processing a over the phone transaction then you do a face to face one.

[The Larch]

A good friend of mine worked for a couple of years back in the day monitoring this kind of incidents for a bank, and he said that everytime a card showed unusual movements (many operations for big money in succession, several charges from abroad in a short period of time) they'd flag it and contact the account holder to check on that. Many times they got hold of stuff way before the person who had been scammed even realized it, and not just for small money, and normally everything would be refunded and irregular charges annulled, I guess insurance would cover them.

Apparently the activity which came higher amongst their incidents were hookers in clubs. One day they got a guy who had his card cancelled at the insistence of his wife who wanted a refund for a wild night when he spent something like a thousand euros on hookers and afterwards claimed that he got his card stolen, and denied it even after being presented with the receipts he had signed.

[CountDeMoney]

Ironically, I think the only time my bank has ever contacted me immediately about a "questionable" purchase was right after I bought something from Paradox. 

[Caliga]

Citibank has a problem with sucky maps.

[Ed Anger]

Speaking of shitty Paradox, WHERE IS MY PRIDE OF NATIONS PATCH? And none of that beta shit either. I didn't pay 20 bones to be a beta tester.

Fuck Paradox.