She tried to delete the vendor. The script refused. Every time she clicked "Delete," the page reloaded and the vendor's product count increased by one.
The product listing updated one last time:
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Vendor number 404 was not a vendor she had approved. The profile photo was a greyscale image of a man with no eyes, only smooth skin. The store name was simply: {NULL} . The products listed were terrifyingly personal. Item #001: "The Hour Elena Cried in the Stairwell." Item #002: "The Exact Amount of Rupees Her Father Lost in 1998."
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With shaking hands, she logged into her Stripe dashboard. Her balance was negative three million rupees. Chargebacks. Thousands of them. Every transaction from the last six months had been reversed. The buyers claimed they never made the purchases—because they hadn't. The ghost orders had used real credit cards, real addresses, but fake identities. The fraud algorithm had finally caught up.