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

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Richard,

Thanks - if you know how to set a minimum account in our Paypal - and if 
it isn't too much work - than I would be grateful if you could do that.

Thanks a lot,

Andreas


On 13.12.2017 09:25, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> On 12-12-17 21:50, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>> On 12 Dec 2017, at 15:50, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net
>>> <mailto: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...
> If I'm right, it is easy to set up a minimal amount. I would say 1 euro,
> given Andreas says sub-Euro, and I think those criminal typically take
> the easiest/cheapest catch. So let's set minimum to 1 euro?
> I can take care of that, I think it could be set in the 'making' of the
> button which we use...
>
> Besides I think we should be as non-responsive as possible for such
> 'dispute'-requests. Hopefully this makes both Criminals/Paypal try other
> solutions for this handling...
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
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