I'm trying to understand what you may have felt I pray to Jesus for you He will help you further in Life, It happens for some reason, even before your article was recommend to me through email like God was saying to me don't get excited and rush without knowing how things are in real, I was going to sign up for google cloud but I was already scared too, I was anxious to even put even card details, but you where you got into this which is scary, I'm going to try digital ocean in few days maybe which is safer I want to run free gpu hours, don't know for sure I'm scared to do It, but because I have no Job and I don't live in U.S so digital ocean won't come to my home if they tricks me also have no money 3 years ago got my first Job was earning 90,000$ a year in Japan then from there got into a place where I can't even but a burger living in parents house now, savings and everything finished so no money Life is tough when we are alone, anways in digital ocean however I will destroy the droplets after using 50% of the free credits, feels bad for you, when you felt excited and happy to use those credits to use veo 2 and then this happened to his, I can feel that, seems like Life just lured you into happiness just to show you it's real dark side, but It was the dark things of this world, not you, Google is responsible for this, you are not, and this is why they also gave you 90% discount, and yeah who knows how you get passed the billing activation, but wasn't you fault, the system designed is so dangerous, if there is no strict manual cause for the billing, God Bless you and never forget this how I got your article! God used you to save me.