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Comment by londons_explore | Hacker News Reader

This fraud flag is caused by your credit card being found in a leaked list of card numbers somewhere.

They suspect you are a fraudster because you are using a stolen card.

Either sign a proper SLA agreement with Google (which gives you 30 days to pay their bills by any form, and therefore you get 30 days notice before they pull the plug), or have two forms of payment on file. Preferably, don't use your GCP credit card at dodgy online retailers too...

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Or you know, Google could have emailed them, told them exactly that and waited for a response before pulling the plug on the servers.

While you make sense from Google's PoV, it doesn't from the customer's PoV. As google is a big corp, it's IMHO better to side with the customer here, as next time it might be you who's getting screwed over by Google/other corp.

> Preferably, don't use your GCP credit card at dodgy online retailers too...

Or at gas stations, ATMs, or any other place where someone can install a skimmer.

> Either sign a proper SLA agreement with Google

How do you do that?

At least someone gets it.

So, you think this is okay?

I may be missing something, so help me out here... I get the impression that the author was not told the precise reason why the activity was suspicious. Wouldn't a precise error message, if not actually a human interface, been helpful? Why the generic "suspicious activity" warning?

It seemed very Kafkaesque to me, getting tried and convicted without any mention of the crime or charge. I think the author is justified in his disapproval.

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