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On 8/20/24 6:33 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>> On 8/19/24 4:06 AM, Marc Haber wrote:
>>> Aliexpress has more of those, but many of those come without docs, so
>>> it's basically luck to get it to work, and if you want to have some
>>> continuity in buying Aliexpress is a bad idea.
>>
>>    I never buy from Ali. Decided awhile back to just
>>    get ONE nice USA Amazon acct. If they don't have
>>    it I don't buy it. Don't wanna make my card
>>    numbers even more accessible to the PRC.
> 
> They do accept PayPal now. 

   Long back I started to set up a PayPal acct, but
   changed my mind, cancelled, about halfway thru.

   Then for weeks I kept getting fake "Your PayPal
   Account May Have Been Compromised - Log In Here !"
   mails  :-)


> Plus since I use pre-paid cards for
> online transactions with only enough money loaded for each
> purchase, any fraud attempts would likely fail quietly due to
> "insufficient funds", or at least be easily spotted.

   Pre-paid cards can be good, or too limiting.

   My main cardholder USED to have a utility for
   creating a "fake" card with just x-dollars on
   it up to y-date. But then ownerships changed
   and that went away. IMHO it was VERY useful
   and needs to make a big come-back.

   Meanwhile, well, I just keep relatively low limits
   on my few cards. Most frauds go for the low-hanging
   fruit and then vanish - not gonna bother trying to
   increase the limits or anything. Also real CCs now
   come with a number of legal protections against
   fraud - ones that other forms of payment don't have.
   How many biz want a routing number directly into
   a checking/savings account now ? DON'T. Got yer
   bank accounts with "overdraft protection" so if
   one gets drained they can start draining all the
   others ? DON'T.