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Re:Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering by anoncoward111 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @05:28AM (#16946828)
Ahhh, interesting! I literally only googled the problem earlier today. It seems venmo's site lied to me then. It quite literally said

"It is not possible to cancel a payment without the consent of the payee".

Aka, if i give you money and you say you don't want it, you can cancel the payment.

But on Amazon or Ebay, you pay me for an Xbox, I ship it, and 3 days later "IT'S BROKEN" and I lose all my profit + shipping fees

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Re:Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering by bigcostooge on Saturday April 28, 2018 @06:07AM (#16946941)
When I was selling hundreds of items per month, I would hold any Spanish name for 48 hours. The majority of Spanish named buyers were committing fraud.
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Re:Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering by Amygaz on Saturday April 28, 2018 @07:39AM (#16947202)
Funny story is the first time my credit card number was stolen following the Target hack, it was used in a grocery store and a convenience store near Madrid.
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