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Re:Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without get... by vidarh on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:15AM (#29064161)
You'd think so, but I've personally had to find ways of blocking people who were buying premium services for an online service to validate cards.
Re:Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without get... by defer on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:01AM (#29065165)
Oh, for sure. It's definitely not either/or. I've worked in fraud prevention software in the past and our clients would definitely see both.

I've been away from that world for a while but remember that more serious operations will separate the cashing out part (either money or goods) from their acquiring / validating operation because the former carries more risk.

There's also an interesting episode of the darknet diaries podcast (https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/85/) about card cloning which I found interesting.

Re:Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without get... by dxdm on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:48AM (#29065480)
Doing tiny transactions to validate cards is a thing. I've seen this happen, it's a known problem, and that at other times it's larger transactions does not make it go away.