[Qgis-psc] Setting a minimum amount for PayPal donations

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 12 Dec 2017, at 15:50, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi PSC,
> 
> We have the issue that every couple days we have to refund small payments on PayPal that were done by criminals. They use stolen credit card data and send a small payment to someone who accepts small payments and that likely wouldn't appear on the radar of the original holder of the credit card - to test if the credit card still works and is accepted. Typically they do sub-Euro transactions.
> 
> I wonder if it would help to avoid such activities by setting a minimum amount for PayPal donations to 5 or 10 Euros ...
> 
> Richard: do you think that would help to scare such criminals away? I think you had a talk to a PayPal rep about this topic?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> From a technical point of view I would have to investigate if this is possible at all ...
> 
> 

I suspect that paying 5 or 10 euros would not matter either to the criminals - I had my card details stolen once and the person bought KFC in USA before trying to buy a larger item from a hardware store…I think the benefit to them is more that the charge attempt can be made without being present for a security person to catch them if it goes wrong. That said it is worth trying different things to see if we can identify ways to change their behaviour by experimentation...

Regards

Tim

> Greetings,
> Andreas
> 
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Tim Sutton
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