Re: Fake online orders--how common are they?

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I've seen a couple, looks like someone jsut wanted to see how the form worked or see if they could get an error or whatever. That is just regular forms though, I never see it on my checkout forms since they need legit CC numbers.

You could get rid of them all together by making a user regiter before they can buy anything and validate their registration with an email with generated links to "activate" the account.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Samuel Neff
  To: CF-Talk
  Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 1:32 PM
  Subject: OT: Fake online orders--how common are they?

  For people that run e-commerce sites, how common is it to get fake online
  orders?  We get a ton of orders with details like

  First Name: a
  Last Name: b
  E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  etc.

  Which of course don't go through.  They're all from different IP's and the
  user is entering a semi-valid credit card number (at least valid according
  to the mathematical validation--not valid in that the bank rejects it as an
  invalid account).

  Do others get a lot of these orders (we get more of these than real orders,
  and we have plenty of real orders)?  Why do people do junk like this?  Are
  there actually e-commerce sites out there that can be hacked like this
  (seems impossible since I assume everyone is charging credit cards in
  real-time)?

  Thanks,

  Sam

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