Wow. I’ve never seen such a blatant display of birdism. Birdists are now openly displaying their hate propaganda, not even just for the general public but specifically targeted so the birds see it and live in fear.
Birdphobia won’t be stopped until all spaces accept and welcome birds.
Problem is in the US since so much of that is put into private sector hands we’d need to gather data on those costs outside of the taxes to put together a proper picture.
I believe sometimes bad actors will purchase goods from themselves using illegally obtained payment information and then actually send the goods to the victim to try to argue against the chargeback and/or make the victim think “hmm maybe I did order this…”. Or they could be trying to make their devices less likely to trip fraud detection systems for a larger haul. Not sure how well this all works though. With more expensive things (phones, TVs, etc.) I’d think they’re planning on swiping the package before you get it, but with coffee I’d be shocked if that was the plan.
Planning on swiping the package requires you to be local to the victim, and willing to assume a high level of risk and time - this is not often close to the truth. These people are often not even within the United State.
What you are describing exists but it would be far more likely that you would know them - and it’s a sloppy drunk family member/friend/coworker. They would not be in the game for long doing this.
Is your address tied directly to the virtual card? If it is, terrible idea on the CC company’s part. If it’s not, how did they know it? I’d assume they have a lot more than just the virtual card info.
To my knowledge its not, it was an apple card too which would be a mountain size leak for a large group. Im thinking it was most likely an online vendor for the moment.
Is the virtual card number single use? I’ve never used one before. If not, maybe another site it was used on just leaked it along with the shipping address. Edit: Oh, that’s basically what you assumed. I tend to reply before I read more than one sentence :)
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