Today I discovered that my website's tip jar was being used to ... • Aaron Parecki

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Today I discovered that my website's tip jar was being used to test stolen credit cards. There were hundreds of attempted $1 charges over the last week. Thankfully @Stripe rejected most of them and only a handful went through, but I'm still stuck with $37 in processing fees. 💸

Portland, Oregon • 69°F

Fri, Apr 10, 2020 4:26pm -07:00 #stripe #payment

9 likes 1 repost 5 replies
- Tim Chambers (Admin)
Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Beko Pharm social.tchncs.de/@bekopharm
  
  @aaronpk this is why we can't have nice things 😞
  
  Sat, Apr 11, 2020 7:54am +00:00
- Ton Zijlstra :cc_cc: 🇪🇺 m.tzyl.nl/@ton
  
  @aaronpk wow
  
  Sat, Apr 11, 2020 7:00am +00:00
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  Only thing I could think of was to switch to manual capture of the charges. So I won't actually charge ppl unless I actually look at the charge first. That'll stop me from paying the txn fee that isn't refunded when I refund a charge.
  
  Sat, Apr 11, 2020 12:07am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Stripe twitter.com/stripe
  
  Oof, so sorry to hear this! We're taking a look at your email now and will be following up shortly.
  
  Sat, Apr 11, 2020 12:04am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- 🦠😷🦠Bret🏜👶🚙 twitter.com/bcomnes
  
  Sucky. What mitigation are you able to do to prevent this?
  
  Fri, Apr 10, 2020 11:58pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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