Quote Originally Posted by tocsin
Well, here is something to keep in mind. Russia is very much a hotbed of internet scamming at the moment which is connected to organized crime. I haven't looked at the site really. But, a friend of mine who also had his material for sale on there was pissed because they were allowing you to purchase a minimum $20 cash credit towards purchases so that, when they came available, you could just download them. I'm sorry, but that is a **** scam if they've never contacted the artists and are using their tracks as an incentive to get people to purchase a line of credit with them. How was the line of credit purchased? On the web with a CC#. Is it so farfetched to think that a company with unethical and illegal practices might not be doing something with that credit information as well?
I had quite an in depth look at the site, and it was clearly written that the requested material was unavailable BEFORE the offer to purchase credits was displayed - sorry, but I can't believe that many people would pay until they knew for SURE they could purchase what they wanted.

I think too much effort has gone into this in terms of design and development for it to be a short term card harvesting operation - the development company has bases in two US cities as well as Russia and a client base that many design agencies would be highly envious of. I doubt they would risk contracts likely to be worth tens of thousands of pounds for a few thousand credit card details.

No what you are saying is not farfetched, but it wouldn't be farfetched if the company was based in the US, or the UK, or any other country in the world. Using a credit card on the internet is dangerous full stop. Luckily cards have good fraud coverage these days!