Why is there no spending limit or fraud detection for sudden credit spikes?
Software bugs and automated systems can rapidly drain credits—burning significant balances in days or weeks—without any automatic safety stops or alerts. Because these platforms often lack responsive support or emergency contact channels, users are left exposed to massive, uncontrolled consumption with no way to halt the bleeding in time.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Contacting separate support teams to report bugs
- 2Manually monitoring credit consumption daily
- 3not saving payment methods in online accounts
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“It used 1% of our total credits per day (4 days until I noticed) which isn't the end of the world but still!”source ↗
“It's been in process for about 2 months and it's still not fixed, and I doubt anyone will reach out to me when it is.”source ↗
“I feel something is horribly wrong with these ad-companies if there is no contact and automatic approval for spending over 100k on ads... From seemingly small and unknown entity.”source ↗
“Is there not something like fraud detection for an unusual amount of spending, like 40k per week?”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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- 3Why is my website traffic suddenly spiking with no sales?
- 3Why do gas stations put huge temporary holds on my card?
- 53HubSpot is down and timing out right now