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How hackers used little-known credit-card feature to defraud Lansdale woman, $1.99 at a time

She was billed $1.99 by Google at least 64 times totaling $127.36 on six different credit cards. Capital One called it an "administrative error."

Leslie Robison sits amid a pile of paperwork from her travails with a growing type of credit fraud in which criminals buy cheap digital subscriptions that often go unnoticed by consumers. In January she found over a dozen charges at $1.99 for cloud storage she never ordered. In the end,she was billed 64 times on six cards over five months.
Leslie Robison sits amid a pile of paperwork from her travails with a growing type of credit fraud in which criminals buy cheap digital subscriptions that often go unnoticed by consumers. In January she found over a dozen charges at $1.99 for cloud storage she never ordered. In the end,she was billed 64 times on six cards over five months.Read moreCain Images