What is this chargeback scam from eBooks bought on my website?

Posted by Dan Friedman on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Dan Friedman
Published on 2013-10-28T22:16:03Z Indexed on 2013/10/29 22:20 UTC
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We have a scammer that is buying our e-Books and then performing chargebacks. Our e-Books don't have DRM, so if they wanted to resell them, they would only need to buy each book once. But instead, they keep buying the same books over and over again and then performing hundreds of chargebacks.

We have created some additional rules in our fraud protection tools to block certain aspects, even though all the info looks legit, and are hopeful this will slow them down.

But my question is: What is the scam? If they aren't getting any product and they only get chargebacks for something they already purchased, then they can't get additional money from the credit card company, so then what's their motivation?

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