• chewypoops@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Why would a $120k spend on a business card (entered by the cardholder on an advertising account under their name) be suspicious?

    This doesn’t follow the pattern of a stolen card at all.

    EDIT: Dad set up the YT brand account using his employer’s Google Workspace. He handed all his work emails and sensitive auth to the kid too. Dad is stupid as fuck.

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      4 hours ago

      Dad is gonna lose his job and 100% blame it on his kid. Nobody that stupid would ever be capable of taking personal responsibility.

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      $120K spent advertising a kid’s Minecraft channel is suspicious. The initial flag should just have been for “card not normally used suddenly spending a shit-ton of money—does this look legit?” After that, a ten-second check of what was being advertised would have shown that something was fishy.

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        3 hours ago

        A $120K marketing budget for a single beat of a campaign would match a company with credit cards with limits that large. Usually you don’t use a credit card for marketing spending though and your Google bill is paid by a bank account. It should have been flagged but they could be using their company cc’s recklessly making this a normal transaction.

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        4 hours ago

        Eh, not necessarily. Those kidslop channels can pull in serious income, a company starting one up makes sense.