Carders test their dumps of stolen credit cards on charity websites. This is not new. But the amount of such transaction normally is very small - several cents - just to test the validity of the account. The founder of the Jack and Jill Foundation actually confirms it: "the foundation was receiving international donations as small as two cents".
Once the account is validated (donation succeeded), there is no need to run more transactions with this card as now it is ready to be used to purchase online or make a fake plastic and go to shop in store.
What is unclear about the victim - how the total amount of such fraudulent test transactions came to $170,000?! If transactions were tested with $0.02 amount as he claims, they should run 8.5 million cards! It was really good batch!
Once the account is validated (donation succeeded), there is no need to run more transactions with this card as now it is ready to be used to purchase online or make a fake plastic and go to shop in store.
What is unclear about the victim - how the total amount of such fraudulent test transactions came to $170,000?! If transactions were tested with $0.02 amount as he claims, they should run 8.5 million cards! It was really good batch!
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