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Old Sep 1, 2013 | 1:12 am
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sharka
 
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Originally Posted by x712xdamx
And here I always heard and read to never send back and forth, and we have people on here saying they've been doing it for a long time (years even!) with no problems. Amazing.

Were there actually any reports in this thread of people being shut down for going a-b-a? I THOUGHT back in the earlier days of AP there was, but haven't read anything recently.

The answer is Yes. My brother was shut down about 2 or 3 yrs back doing the A-B then B-A route with his wife. Both had separate checking accts with different banks and never sent same amts back and forth. Amts would vary by $10-20 each way. They both had same address though. He thinks it was a random internal audit of certain accts that the computer had selected as suspicious. During that time I remember reading a few others reported being shut down for sending back and forth. Recently past yr or so, have not seen any shut downs but then who knows how often or how widespread the next Amazon surprise audit will be?
I learn from him and I do the a-b-c sent routing with different amts and different addresses and sometimes break it up into 2-3 payments. I try to not show a pattern and be as random as possible. I've been at this since the start and never had a problem as I stay below their computer radar.

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