Interesting New one from Nigeria

[gjpemt]

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I work for a company that provides a service to our members. To use the service, our members have to contact us. With out that contact, and the verification of their name, there is no way they will ever get anything from us.

In recent days we have noticed a rise in enrollments from Nigeria. All have been with stolen credit cards. We've cancelled the memberships, refunded the money and contacted the card holders to let them know

My question is this, what the heck are they doing? They can't resell what they've bought from us, so what is the motive here? Any one have a clue?

We've blocked all sign ups now from Nigeria, so hopefully it was just a short spike, but I'd love to know what they hoped to gain

[Nyla]

Depends on what the service is that you are selling. Some scammers will happily buy non-transferable services like web services, phone services and mailing lists with stolen credit cards, because they can use the services to help run scams or add an air of legitimacy.

Or they could simply be testing the cards with your service to see if they work before placing an order for more valuable merchandise.