SSL Issued From LE Being Used in Credit Card Scam

You need to understand what a certificate is certifying.

A Let's Encrypt certificate only certifies that you are speaking to a server that has been authorized by whoever controls the domain name.

If whoever controls the domain name is a criminal, then Let's Encrypt certifies you are actually speaking to the right criminal and nobody else.

There is no other check.

This is among the reasons browser don't show a lock anymore: https isn't safe, it's just encrypted.

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