Credit Card Fraud
So I get this phone call the other day and my credit card company is on the other end. They say "yeah, somebody tried to buy 1200 worth of clothes in Italy, but we told them STFU."
I was stunned.
My credit card is now cancelled, and I sifted through my memory to where I have used it recently - only gas stations and renting cars. And I think the gas stations come out as the more questionable of the two. There has been a suspicious moment or two - the pump telling me to come inside and pay there. Wierd stuff.
So now I'm hyper-sensitive to this sorta thing now - I even called my other company to ask if I was still OK. And keeping an eye on my bank accounts, etc.
I am DEFINITELY going to pay cash more often.... and I will keep track of everywhere I use a credit card from now on.
BEWARE!!!
I was stunned.
My credit card is now cancelled, and I sifted through my memory to where I have used it recently - only gas stations and renting cars. And I think the gas stations come out as the more questionable of the two. There has been a suspicious moment or two - the pump telling me to come inside and pay there. Wierd stuff.
So now I'm hyper-sensitive to this sorta thing now - I even called my other company to ask if I was still OK. And keeping an eye on my bank accounts, etc.
I am DEFINITELY going to pay cash more often.... and I will keep track of everywhere I use a credit card from now on.
BEWARE!!!
posted by Derk at
7:15 PM
2 Comments:
i havent been near a computer since yesterday. and im not gonna do it from home, since i dont trust the security of this computer.
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Derk, at 5:19 PM
It's possible that the number was stolen directly from the bank, and that a merchant wasn't involved...or it was some sort of "skimming" operation...Who knows. I've suffered two incidents: In one, MBNA called me to say that my card was part of a group of "a few thousand cards" (!!) which was "compromised" by a Russian group and thus cancelled; I checked my past statements and low and behold found a $.12 transaction in Rubles from a few months earlier which I had missed. In another one, just recently actually, I received a charge from some sort of online hosting company which I've never heard of, has a suspicous website, and an automated attendant which takes messages that are never returned; so I initiated a fraud investigation with my credit card company (major Canadian bank) and my card was canceled and the charge reversed. Crazy shit.
-PF
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Anonymous, at 8:01 AM
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