The thing that I think is more of a problem than inconvenient spam e-mails are the "orders" received on e-commerce sites. We have have perhaps a dozen orders with credit card numbers, expiration dates and V-codes included. Most of these orders have a ship to address in Lagos, Nigeria. Some of the credit card numbers are actually valid numbers, but do not belong to anyone in Lagos, Nigeria. The first order of this type that we received we did check it out. One of the things that we were told by our bank is that even if the credit card number is valid and we ship the product that because it is an international order, if it is found to be fraudulent we are responsible. So if you are shipping a product to one of these places don't accept a credit card number (even with an authorization from your credit card processor) ask for a wire transfer. That weeds out the frauds really quick.
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