Get free trials using fake credit card numbers

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Columbia House FTW!!!

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Compared to, say, faking thousands of mortgages.

EDIT: What the hell is that below me? Itā€™s the third one Iā€™ve seen.

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Yes, make no little plans. (And as nicely revisited in the BB TOS, nobody on the internet is under 13. (Except chief executives and large metro areasā€™ police (or that they play ā€œCeci nā€™est pas une 8-ballā€ live) and sometimes IOC members, but the TOS doesnā€™t make hash of that or explain why itā€™s not like To Aru Majutsuā€¦ really.))

I think a nicer example (than imagining every sales conversation is with a shifty contractor) is looking for no free trial you would never see tipping a ten. Her nerves, is it really more an app market of $0.50 to $4.80 already?

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Shopsafe is still functional as of yesterday. I find it useful for avoiding inadvertent auto-renewal and for shopping on websites whose security I donā€™t trust, and hope that people abusing such numbers donā€™t cause the providers to stop the service.

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There are 63 of them, at last count.

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Not at all, his posts were all sane until that one. Suddenly accounts are being hijacked by some kind of Tristan Tzara bot. Also, itā€™s To Aru Majutsu no Indexā€¦ really.

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Citibank has it (Virtual Numbers). I used it today, as a matter of fact. Itā€™s awesome. You can make cards that last from 2 months up to a year, and give it a credit limit (which can be changed at any time). You can have multiple cards going at a time. I started using the service in earnest after buying something from a website, and then found a fraudulent charge shortly after. I still use the site (they sell special office supplies at excellent prices), but never with my ā€œrealā€ credit cards.

Itā€™s great for services like iTunes. Set a card up with a credit limit for $100, and make it last for a year. If I need more $$$, I can increase the limit. Once Apple (or whoever) charges the card, only they can charge it again; this is good because if a legit business with a bad employee gets the number, he/she wonā€™t be able to use it anywhere else. The one possible downside is that they can probably use the number to buy goods from their employer, so thatā€™s why I keep the credit limit as close to the actual cost of the good that Iā€™m buying.

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