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. ๐Ÿ’ธ

Apr 10, 2020 ยท 11:26 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @stripe
Sucky. What mitigation are you able to do to prevent this?
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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.
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Replying to @aaronpk
Oof, so sorry to hear this! We're taking a look at your email now and will be following up shortly.
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