Criminals are starting to use charitable donations as a way to check whether their stolen credit card numbers are working. The Red Cross was forced to return nearly US$7,000 that was donated in the course of 700 fraudulent transactions last month. The American Red Cross says it has someone in place who deals with this on a regular basis. The fraud accounted for a tiny sliver of the Red Crosss $6 billion in revenue last year, but the organization also has to pay staff to stay on top of the fraud.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2121806/charities-targeted-by-credit-card-fraud.html