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A legit but not very trusted website wants my card details and (more worryingly) my address for an access to their service. The service is free, they say they just debit £1 and then refund it, to filter out spammers. In reality, they are likely to be the real spammers here, I am sure I will find tons of waste mail on my door mat once they have my address.
Revolut provides single-use debit cards but... with my read address attached to it. Not very smart, eh?
So, where I can get a virtual single use debit card with virtual number and virtual address?
Revolut provides single-use debit cards but... with my read address attached to it. Not very smart, eh?
So, where I can get a virtual single use debit card with virtual number and virtual address?
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So whats the website?Life in the slow lane0
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If they do a check on your card number and it's a fake address, they will reject it
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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QQQ said:A legit but not very trusted website wants my card details and (more worryingly) my address for an access to their service.So are they legit or untrustworthy ? The two are usually mutually exclusive.How vital or unique is the service they're offering? If you have any doubts, can you not just go elsewhere instead?0
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> So are they legit or untrustworthy?
Something in the middle
> The two are usually mutually exclusive.
I would disagree
> How vital or unique is the service they're offering?
I need their service
> If you have any doubts, can you not just go elsewhere instead?
No. Sadly there is almost no competition in that sector.0 -
So exactly what is the site?Life in the slow lane1
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You could use a prepaid mastercard, the sort which you buy in a supermarket or WHSmith and has an activation fee.
You may be able to purchase a virtual card like this through perks at work or similar.
Then you can use any real address.0 -
Is this a site where they need the CC as a form of age verification because of legal restrictions on the access to the service they provide?QQQ said:A legit but not very trusted website wants my card details and (more worryingly) my address for an access to their service. The service is free, they say they just debit £1 and then refund it, to filter out spammers. In reality, they are likely to be the real spammers here, I am sure I will find tons of waste mail on my door mat once they have my address.
Revolut provides single-use debit cards but... with my read address attached to it. Not very smart, eh?
So, where I can get a virtual single use debit card with virtual number and virtual address?
Any site that offers their service for free has to make money from advertising and / or marketing mails. I suspect marketing e-mails are far more likely than hard copy junk mail sent by post.
Address verification is common with online purchases as part of the CC security process.1 -
so whats the website?0
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