One late night I opted to sign up to NewsDemon and abNZB to dabble into Usenet and done used my personal CC to authorize the payments, how screwed am I?

I obviously don’t intend to renew the services with this oversight, likely going to use prepaid visas from now on however, I have an itch that this will bite me in the ass.

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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unless someone anti-piracy is combing through your statements, why would anything come of it? I use my debit mastercard for nzbgeek and vipernews and have never had an issue.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You really shouldn't use your debit card for anything other than withdrawing money at an ATM. Credit cards are safer plus you get rewards.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No. I'm not American, the rewards suck here, I'm never getting a credit card. My bank doesn't even offer them :)

[–] freeman@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hi, fellow non-american here. I use a prepaid card for online shopping and stuff like this. If there are suspicious transactions I can burn the card and request a new one.

Some onlinebanks even let you generate a new card with the exact needed amout for every transaction.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

I have never had a suspicious transaction, because the way payments work here (NL) they always need to be authorised, and recurring payments require a different authorisation that you can of course always cancel. You can't just take money by knowing the card number and cvv (which we also don't have (yet)).

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

I do have a seperate card for recurring payments that is easily cancellable.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That'd be like paying for internet service being used to screw you.

A usenet account is not in itself proof of anything.

[–] taco@piefed.social 17 points 4 days ago

Total non-issue. I'd be surprised if anyone can provide a single credible instance of this biting someone in the ass.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

Not really an issue IMO.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

You are t screwed at all. That’s perfectly fine to pay for legal tools using legal forms of payment.