Fraudulent Amazon Credit

[Jiwi]

How often does it happen?

Purchased ~450 bucks worth of cards recently.

What's the chance that they're purchased with a fraud cc?

Thanks guys

Edit:
honestly worried about this guys after taking a look at how little I spent on them.


History:
1.) $100 for 75m
2.) $150 for 100m
3.) $75 for 61m
4.) $100 for $45

Those are the biggest purchases, and they genuinely have me worried after TbT's carded balance report.
1 and 2 are from the same guy, 3 is from one, and 4 is from another.

Any help with this would be much appreciated.

 

[Exile3]

In my experiences, the chances are pretty good, especially at the price you got the 4th one. Amazon $ is pretty much as good as cash. People typically pay almost dollar for dollar for those. So for these guys to sell it at such a steep discount is sketchy. Amazon GC's are ALWAYS in high demand.

 

[Noam]

I'd sell em off again or something / use it real quick or whatever cause you won't be able to buy those PC parts if you lose all that

 

[Jiwi]

Well if I have negative balance I could get in even more trouble, no?

Thanks for the replies you two. Helping a lot.

Bump!

 

[Jiwi]

Bumpp

 

[Jiwi]

Bump ):

 

[Mr Jeddy]

Not worth the risk imo, you'd be at a loss if in 2 months they come up as invalid due to a credit card fraud chargeback. I don't know much on how Amazon's system works. If you can, dump the balance on a patsy account and spend what you can, and get next day shipping.


Don't re-sell the money if you can, because that would be wrong =[

 

[Jiwi]

Bumpp

 

[Jiwi]

Anyone else?

 

[Jiwi]

Bump.

 

[jcliu0]

I'd dispose of it as soon as possible, you could potentially be liable for fraudulent abuse.

 

[Jiwi]

But if the balance is zero, would I still be liable for it?

I'm not sure if I should just spend it and hope for the best. Since I don't know how to transfer the money to a random account, I'm just unsure of what to do really.

Thanks for the input so far guys.

 

[WeRnIE]

Use them, in the worst case you will just need to pay back.

 

[Ivy Bridge]

Use them, in the worst case you will just need to pay back.

Do you not see the negative side of having to pay back hundreds of dollars he may not have to spare? lol... pointless post.

On topic:

If you are truly worried about it, remove any credit cards or bank accounts associated with your account and you should have nothing to worry about. If there is no payment option, there's nothing they can do. You may have to make a new account if you ever wish to add a new payment option (purely in the interest of safety). They're not going to sue you over a few hundred bucks. I've seen people who have SE'd over 20 Kindle Fires from Amazon without consequence.

 

[Jiwi]

2 weeks and still nothing redacted

 

[Diviine]

If I was you I would make a new account via a proxy and spend what you can.