Accepting Fraudulent Orders

on purpose...

[akmac]

Received a $6000 order yesterday requesting immediate express shipment to Singapore address. I go through all the steps to determine that yes, this is a fraudulent order (steps covered here before).

The transaction is preauthorized, so he's got a live card. I alert the issuing bank, and this time they thank me! This is so unusual, that it snaps me out of my habit of just deleting the user account and order-I leave his user account, and update his order status to "Shipped".

Yes, it's a lie. I didn't really ship it. I almost feel bad.

That afternoon, we get two more orders from Singapore-roughly $5000 each. The same guy or some of his friends-so I approve their orders too. Shipped, Shipped, Shipped.

Whoops-Just got another one! Let's see... $5,233.50 to Singapore.

I wonder how many card numbers they'll give me?
I wonder how long they'll wait for their orders?
I wonder how long before I get tired of alerting issuing banks?

[zomega42]

I love that idea. You know what would be almost as good? If merchants always reported stolen credit cards, period. I bet most of the time merchants get a fraudulent order they just decline and ignore, and the thief goes along and uses the card somewhere else.