Re:Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or rentin...
by markstos on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:00AM
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Scammers use small changes on stolen cards as a test. If the test change doesn't get noticed or flagged, later a much larger is sent through.
"That's weird" is a not an acceptable answer for a card was charged for any amount.
Re:Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or rentin...
by vintermann on Monday March 21, 2022 @11:57AM
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Yeah, that was my first thought too, but the card was already expired, and a scammer would probably have known that immediately without testing (since they presumably need the expiry date as well as the card number to charge anything).
I've had mini-charges like these from other cloud providers, too, but then I could confirm the reason for it (some sort of storage I'd missed while deleting the instances).
Re:Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or rentin...
by bruhhh on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:03AM
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the amount doesnt matter, it's about getting charged for no reason. You never know how much it would be for the next person they charge
Re:Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or rentin...
by franga2000 on Monday March 21, 2022 @09:08AM
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It matters when evaluating their response. If they said "huh, weird" for a 200$ charge I'd be suspicious, but for such a small amount, I totally see why they wouldn't bother explaining how it happened.
Also, I doubt you'd get a "reasonable explanation" from any other company - at best they'll say "sorry it was a (human|software) error, we've taken steps to ensure it won't happen again", as disclosing anything more is usually against company policy.