Just reporting the card lost/stolen doesn't work because these services already verified and seem to come across as recurring transactions that still go through even though the old card has been reported lost and there's a new number.
Are you saying that after Amazon verifies your credit card once, a scammer can keep making purchases on your card after you report it stolen to your credit card company?
This is news to me.
How long can Amazon do that? The end of the day? The end of the month? What eventually stops Amazon from accepting a card which has been reported stolen, and how long does the process take?
But blocking one specific company such as Amazon works faster? Why is that?
I guess at the end of the month, you can dispute the purchases.
What Amazon should be doing is letting you cancel an Amazon account if you know what credit card information it's using, like the author of this blog tried to do. The flaw is if your credit card info is leaked and someone cancels your Amazon account. But I see that as vastly superior to just having a random unauthorized Amazon account somewhere out there with your leaked credit card info in it making unauthorized purchases.
As you note, this has a flaw:
> The flaw is if your credit card info is leaked and someone cancels your Amazon account. But I see that as vastly superior to just having a random unauthorized Amazon account somewhere out there with your leaked credit card info in it making unauthorized purchases.
I don't see why it needs to be all or nothing. Just remove that credit card from the account, and block it from being added back. That lets you stop someone who has your card on their account, without opening you up to having your Amazon account canceled if someone gets your leaked info and wants to be a jerk.