$3,000 disappeared because I didn’t notice the pattern for 4 days. Some fraudster attempted to place orders using 69 different credit cards before I closed all the accounts and refunded all the charges. Looks like this person had a large list of credit cards about to expire he was running through, since a few couldn’t be refunded. That might explain the two strange, nasty voice mails left on my phone by people who left no name or number. Amazing how fast so much money can be lost — in 4 days, a lot of advertising can be delivered, which I of course paid for.

Of course, I require new customers make their first payment by PayPal as I’ve written about before, but that didn’t change anything. He made the first with PayPal and the rest directly with the various cards. The sites he was advertising didn’t appear malicious, but do have a Russian statistics counter on them. That’s probably the real location of this person. I sure wish I knew why VisitorBoost is targeted so much. I understand why the service is something you’d want to buy with a stolen card, since its benefits you can use to steal or gain further, but what I don’t understand is why so many find my site of the hundreds selling the same.