Anybody get hit with fraud on the CC lately?

[cookiebun]

A couple months back before the deeming regs I decided to go on a shopping spree. Bank shut down the CC I was using because they thought my ecig purchases were bogus. I call them and tell them "nope, I bought all that stuff".

Today I get another letter from the bank complaining they can't reach me by phone, more suspicious charges, yada yada yada. I call them and they inform me somebody is trying to use my card at the Apple Store, itunes and some game/toy site I've never heard of.

I probably shopped at 20 sites during my shopping spree and I haven't used the card since. Anyone else have any issues during their beat-the-deeming-regs shop-a-thons?
Just curious.

 

[retired1]

CCFraud/nic supplier

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[Semiretired]

Those are good links / threads to read. They provide a few tools to assist with your future shopping.

 

[Rickb119]

Happened to several of us here. Fortunately, the banks/cc companies are on top of things and know what to look out for.

 

[Tempesta]

Happened to me, too. The bank notified me before I even knew there was a problem, and issued a new card quickly.

 

[Huehugh]

Yes! For the first time in my life I was hit with CC fraud. (3 days ago) It was scary. They hacked my debit card (which lucky me only had 300 bucks on it) ... don't know how they got my #. I think it was a woman because in addition to a couple of rides on "lyft" (she must have driven all around LA on my dime!!) She bought shoes at shopmiss. C om and Chinese laundry. It was really scary. I only used the card for vape purchases so it had to be one of the sites I trusted. Wells Fargo reversed the charges after a few days. They told me to use a credit card online. Not a debit card. All back to normal now.

 

[JCinFLA]

Yep! Quite a few of us here in the last month or so especially!

 

[Burnie]

Well your card can get hacked and you not know it, check your account online regularly. I just checked mine today, on 8/31 there was a charge from Microsoft for $422.94. Well I haven't purchased software in ages, and would NEVER pay that much for a program. So I called my CC company, have new cards coming, and now to wait the 30 to 60 days for them to clear this up. Also I use this card for auto payments at 4 places that I now have to contact to give another number when the new card gets here. Oh Joy.

 

[bnrkwest]

Yep me too, both my CC's were hacked and had to get 2 new cards.

 

[K_Tech]

Lately? No. Regularly? Yep, maybe once or twice a year. The last few years the CC company has caught it before I did.

Having a CC is a risk, like flying a plane. Bad things can happen, and they happen pretty regularly. Fortunately the fix for a compromised credit card generally doesn't involve a cadaver dog and hazmat bags.

 

[herb]

Yup, second time i have had this happen .

 

[cookiebun]

Those are good links / threads to read. They provide a few tools to assist with your future shopping.

Well your card can get hacked and you not know it, check your account online regularly. I just checked mine today, on 8/31 there was a charge from Microsoft for $422.94. Well I haven't purchased software in ages, and would NEVER pay that much for a program. So I called my CC company, have new cards coming, and now to wait the 30 to 60 days for them to clear this up. Also I use this card for auto payments at 4 places that I now have to contact to give another number when the new card gets here. Oh Joy.

Lately? No. Regularly? Yep, maybe once or twice a year. The last few years the CC company has caught it before I did.



Having a CC is a risk, like flying a plane. Bad things can happen, and they happen pretty regularly. Fortunately the fix for a compromised credit card generally doesn't involve a cadaver dog and hazmat bags.

CCFraud/nic supplier

And.....

Before you click that "order" button

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Thanks for the replies. I've been shopping online for a very long time (late 90's) and wasn't asking for assistance. Burnie & Huehugh's replies are more what I was after.

Back in the early 2000's somebody in Eastern Europe got my BOA card number and spent $2300 on computer supplies. It's funny, BOA didn't try to block the charges and I had to bring the fraud to their attention. At the same time I had a Citibank card that I couldn't use at all for anything without them shutting it down and bugging me over the phone. They pestered me so much I changed my phone number and haven't given it out since. They even locked down my card after I spent a pitiful $9 on a Flying Pigs Screen Saver from a guy in Australia.
Anyway, I remember some conversation here a few years ago about why it's fairly common to have CC issues after buying ecig stuff and I was curious to see if this was still common. I've always wondered whether the ecig vendor CC issues was somehow tied up in this:
Operation Choke Point - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Burnie]

Well your card can get hacked and you not know it, check your account online regularly. I just checked mine today, on 8/31 there was a charge from Microsoft for $422.94. Well I haven't purchased software in ages, and would NEVER pay that much for a program. So I called my CC company, have new cards coming, and now to wait the 30 to 60 days for them to clear this up. Also I use this card for auto payments at 4 places that I now have to contact to give another number when the new card gets here. Oh Joy.

Really strange, the wife just got hit also, less than a month after I did, something is going on here in Florida.

 

[LimJaheyyy]

Yup just yesterday I looked at my statement and saw a 60 dollar purchase on my debit. Looked up the address and it was a gas station in cali! I live in pa! Someone got the numbers and must've made a card or something cause it was physically swiped for gas on the other side of the country. Craziness

 

[Vandal]

My card was compromised as well. First time ever (aside from once when I had my actual card stolen). Someone used my card number in September for dating sites. Lol. Of all things. I only discovered it last night. My card's been canceled, a dispute lodged, and new card is being mailed to me.

I surely cannot say my shopping on any vaping sites was the reason, but a few of those shops were ones I'd never purchased from before, and I have not made any other purchases from places unknown to me in the last months. Of course, I realize there are other ways cards can be compromised.

Really feels, icky. Even though it was funny, thinking about someone stealing a card number and signing up for Cupid and Eharmony dot coms.