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Old Dec 19, 2020 | 7:00 pm
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Originally Posted by Bigzamboni
The buyers are most certainly criminals recoding the the mag-strip with stolen CC info. While it may be tempting to try and squeeze out a few extra bucks from your MS, you are helping ID thieves who ultimately make MS more difficult.
IMHO that makes no sense. Yes, scammers can rewrite the magnetic strips. But since any card is rewritable, why would a scammer need thousands of them? Rewrite twenty cards, cash them out, rewrite them again if that's the ploy. No need for thousands of cards.
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