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Re:Vast.ai – marketplace for renting out your GPU, or rentin... by markstos on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:00AM (#30754202)
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 (#30755573)
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).