one of my first projects at work was testing a billing backend for what is now google workspace. i used my own credit card because the system wasn’t hooked up to a real merchant processing system and the credit card number had to validate checksums and i was too lazy to walk and buy prepaid debit cards
after 6 months of this going flawlessly i got a call from my bank “this is a fraud alert, have you attempted to purchase …. umm, it says… twenty million dollars of services from Google?”
