Silent Risk Block Declines Every Card With No Disclosure or Appeal
A customer cannot complete any online order because every credit card fails at the payment step, while the same cards work normally at other retailers. Support insists there is no restriction on the account, so the block is invisible to the very people meant to explain it. With no disclosure and no appeal path, the account is effectively unusable and the customer has nothing to act on.
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