I get them now and again. Strangely enough, I used to get them all
the time on a non-profit donation system that I wrote...
I think it's mainly people jiggling door handles, trying to find sites
that simply do mathematical checks and then process cards later. I
used to work at one place that simply emailed the results of the form
to someone who'd then run the number later, so imagine some places may
still do this, and could possibly be scammed....
-joe
----- Original Message -----
From: Samuel Neff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:32:57 -0400
Subject: OT: Fake online orders--how common are they?
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For people that run e-commerce sites, how common is it to get fake online
orders? We get a ton of orders with details like
First Name: a
Last Name: b
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
etc.
Which of course don't go through. They're all from different IP's and the
user is entering a semi-valid credit card number (at least valid according
to the mathematical validation--not valid in that the bank rejects it as an
invalid account).
Do others get a lot of these orders (we get more of these than real orders,
and we have plenty of real orders)? Why do people do junk like this? Are
there actually e-commerce sites out there that can be hacked like this
(seems impossible since I assume everyone is charging credit cards in
real-time)?
Thanks,
Sam________________________________
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