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A Credit Card Theft Victim
I buy and sell items on eBay, plus I have my own eBay store. I use my
domain name to 'point" to my eBay store. I also use my email address
associated with this domain for when I decide to buy something on eBay.
Not long ago, I made an eBay purchase and paid by credit card. I thought
the seller was legitimate (and had no reason to question him), so when I
paid by credit card, I gave my credit card number, expiration date, and
email address - just like you would when making any purchase online.
The seller looked up the Whois information for my domain and obtained by
home address. He then took my address, together with my credit card info
and started making online purchases. This was easy because the online
stores required address verification to confirm my credit card. And of
course, he had it because he had my address from the Whois.
If my domain had privacy on it, then this joker never would have been able
to purchase online because he couldn't have provided the necessary address
verification. Now, all my domains have privacy. It gives me real peace
of mind and I'll never register a domain again without it.
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