I'm pretty sure I know what's going on. In order to pay off their debts, Homejoy must have sold user account information, including credit cards, to a bunch of local home cleaning businesses. A shit ton of them have been popping around over the past couple of years, modeled after the advice given in this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/entrepreneurridealong
The difference with these local cleaning businesses is that they are developed and ran by amateurs, who often times copy each other (or the successful giants) down to the wording on the websites, with minor branding changes. They tend to be super low-budget, so Fly Maids probably paid some "web developer" $500 to develop their website and paid zero attention to security, PCI compliance, and so on. They then purchased a bunch of LA-based user accounts from the now-defunct Homejoy, who of course did not perform any due diligence.
Shitty situation to be sure. I definitely lost respect for the Homejoy founders, and will probably stay away from their next venture.
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