The man did the right thing. He made a solid financial investment. The woman would have squandered the money anyway on overpriced costume jewelry and perfume...
The story shows how common and relatively easy credit card fraud is. The privacy invasive ID requirements for every lolly you buy are not improving security. Instead the people that in the past were satisfied with stealing your money are now discovering the unlimited opportunities of identity theft.
The crime also shows that Bitcoin has become a real currency with solid demand from all professions.
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