I can never understand why people are still paying for porn!
The more pertinent question is why would you go to the trouble of fraud for porn? I’d be more suspicious of the porn site than the email account holder. CC fraud needs to have some kind of merchantable outcome to make it worth the bother of committing crime, what makes that difficult is if you use fraudulent transactions to buy tangible, saleable items then you need to have those things sent somewhere and risk identification in doing so.
For that reason something virtual and transferable – like phone credit – is preferable. Use a hacked card to buy top ups – sell top ups for cash. The phone companies are very lax partly because they want their customers to be able to make transactions quickly and easily and also bacuase the worst that can happen is the cc company claws back the money – the phone co hasn’t sold anything tangible anyway so thy’ve nothing to lose.
Whats the financial gain from porn? Unless its being used to purchase something tradable how do you convert the fraudulent card use into spendable cash?
I’d think its more likely the porn site itself is there to launder fraudulent credit card transactions rather than the gmail account holder being the fraudster.