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Re:Nike won’t sell directly to Amazon anymore by kortilla on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:03PM (#21531701)
> It's a really common fraud scheme because it's not uncommon for regular people to do that.

Lol, no. It’s a common fraud scheme because users of stolen credit cards can’t update the billing address. They would love to be able to use a stolen credit card with an address matching their drop location.

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Re:Nike won’t sell directly to Amazon anymore by romwell on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:20PM (#21531829)
I think you misunderstood what I was saying.

My point was that if only fraudsters were shipping to non-billing addresses, we wouldn't need to specify two addresses when making a purchase.

In itself, shipping to a non-billing address is not a scheme. It's what people do. That's why that is an option to begin with, and that's why all shopping sites support it.

If it was uncommon for people to ship to non-billing address, then it would cease being a fraud scheme, because we would be able to use this as a reliable indicator of fraud -- or we'd not have this option to begin with. Therefore, fraudsters do that because it's not uncommon in general.

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