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Comment by kccqzy

15 days ago

I think it’s a typical strategy for scammers to create a new account and then immediately try to buy an optional service with a stolen credit card.

What you did isn’t wrong, but is unfortunately very similar to what real scammers do. The heuristics behind these anti-abuse efforts are always going to have false positives.

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