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Comment by kpapke | Hacker News Reader

Maybe by absurd it means the number of prohibited businesses? Otherwise it just looks Stripe does not to be involved with shady/spammy businesses.

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I'm not sure these are that spammy:

* personal computer technical support

* travel agencies

* hair-extensions

What all of them is the ability to be a scam, but any business can scam you. Surprised fortune tellers aren't on there.

It is.

Surprised fortune tellers aren't on there

They are. #27

Personal tech support would be a high-chargeback environment with very little way to defend against fraud allegations. Travel agencies sell a product that is to be delivered in a foreign country, which is a scammer's favourite promise. And hair extensions... I guess that must be a high scam market, but I don't know why. Being at the end of the list, I assume it was added after experiencing a lot of issues with that type of business.

Travel agencies also sell a product that’s often delivered much later, when the agency or a supplier (hotel, airline, etc.) may no longer exist. This increases the risk of chargebacks.

* personal computer technical support *

Is this possibly related to the fake Anti-Virus warning popups and the companies that make them?

I thought that those bogus phone calls about "We have detected that your computer has a virus ..." end up directing you to a website to pay to down load some kind of anti-virus software. In which case the "personal computer technical support" business does have a big problem with its spammy end.

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