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The whole thing reeks of overly aggressive automation. And while Google has reverted these cases, i fear they have not changed their automation to match.

I am right now looking at two stories of people that has trouble with Google because of some security system or other has picked up "oddities" in the payment activity.

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Which part of the automation failed? It appears to have identified with perfect accuracy an organized ring of phone scalpers. I think their account abuse team should be roundly congratulated.

They didn't punish the scalpers.

Why should a scalper even be punished by having their email shut down? That's not a service connected to the phones.

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