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Couldn't you have changed your CC number and email to disposable ones, and then written off the account?

Not if they used the lock-$2 verification trick.

What does that mean?

How does it work? Never heard of it before

Basically a proxy to the real credit card - then you can switch it off.

Disposable, not fake. $5 would be ample for any authorization-based validation scheme I've ever implemented, dealt with, or heard about.

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