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m463 3 hours ago

I had a friend with the apple card, and there were fraudulent charges on her card before she even used it.

I think that caused her to over-scrutinize things.

But (years) later I saw her using apple pay. She had charges she didn't recognize and would immediately flag them. Thing is, I couldn't help but think they might have been real charges with weirdly named companies on the transaction.

lelanthran an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> She had charges she didn't recognize and would immediately flag them. Thing is, I couldn't help but think they might have been real charges with weirdly named companies on the transaction.

That's completely the companies fault. If you give a transaction a reference that the customer will not recognise, that's on you!

cortesoft 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I feel like companies should do a better job of naming their payment entity something that a customer can know when they see it.

cherioo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s 2026, why can’t credit card and merchant figure out a way to transmit order summary URL as part of credit card transactions so I don’t need to match up transactions by amount??

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Schiendelman 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

They absolutely can. They just don't bother.

t-3 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not really helpful if I recognize the name when the gas station doesn't put the charges on my card until Friday when I bought stuff there on Tuesday. Then I'm just confused and have to analyze my whole purchase history.