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My father was scammed out of $1200 USD. He had a pop-up on his browser that said his computer was broken. It's the most cheesy scam on the web but this 80 year old man didn't know better. He thought he was getting a great deal - $1200 for lifetime support of his computer.

Anyway, he told us the same day and we immediately called his bank. It was under 24 hours and they shut down the payment. He didn't lose a penny.

So, yeah, I totally agree with you. The slowness of payments and chargebacks are a feature, not a bug. Same way that we have checkpoints before we deploy code to prod. Not having this assumes that everyone is making decisions in their best interest all the time. In reality, we do bone-headed things quite often and need a fair redo.



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