Did you have to call their number and provide them with your name, CC number, last 4 of ssn, and 3 digit code on back of card? I was getting a little alarmed when he was asking me all of this. But I figured they are sending a new card so if they get the old info it shouldn't matter.
I would bet on the gas pump having a skimmer on or inside the pump. The local media recently reported finding some new versions of the skimmers that go inside the pump so you can't see it from the outside. They recommend that you pay inside, but that is really a PITA.EERRGG. Just got my flipping New bank card hacked again by some of the same charges as before.
Same gistpal limited charges as before. This is my only card at the moment again and now it just got closed. The only online thing I have bought with it was from amazon a couple days ago. And I use the card at the SAME gas station. I am starting to think maybe they have a card skimmer on it or something.
EERRGG. Just got my flipping New bank card hacked again by some of the same charges as before.
Same gistpal limited charges as before. This is my only card at the moment again and now it just got closed. The only online thing I have bought with it was from amazon a couple days ago. And I use the card at the SAME gas station. I am starting to think maybe they have a card skimmer on it or something.
No they don't it's just a small country highway owned station. I went to the bank and I had to close the card again, but I asked her for 2 different cards for the same account. If those have different numbers I think I might use one for online and the other for purchases, or just use one for everything and switch to the other If I get hacked again.
Do you do a lot of internet over wireless networks or public wifi? How secure is your home internet system? Have you tried running something like Malwarebytes on the PC and mobile devices to see if there is something on your equipment that might be diverting your information?
Funny you mentioned that because I was looking over those settings the last time this happened. Everything on the computer related to my bank info is encrypted, and on the router I have WPA2 Personal With AES encryption, My password is over 25 Characters long. I check the attached devices list every now and then and I have a list of all my devices that connect to my wifi and their MAC addresses. I haven't even gotten my new credit card from the last time it was hacked, I guess Capital One forgot to mail the new one out so I had to call them.
I went through that about a year or so ago.In my case,it was a purchase i made,but much larger than i had ever made before,so they flagged it and would not process it until i confirmed it.That incident showed me how clueless i was at the time though,because when they called,they just said they were the fraud unit from my bank,and i willingly gave them all the info they asked for,which included my full SS#.As soon as i hung up the phone,i realized that could of been anyone,so i rushed to call the bank and verify the number that had called me,luckily it was legit,but it definitely made me aware of how easy i could of been screwed.
Yea, I really don't like giving card info out over the phone. Think about even if 1/1000 people working for a bank or capital one, were to write down that info and sell it later on. There really isn't a 100% way to protect yourself from fraud in today's world. I figure if I get hacked again, I am switching banks completely. I have been with the same bank for over 6 years, but I have moved so much since I started using them. I live an hour away from my main bank, and if I have to go sign fraud dispute papers and stuff, it's really that much more of a hassle.
Yea, I have my PayPal card also, but I only started using it for my Xbox live subscription. Because the people at Microsoft are a bunch of idiots and can't update the card info in their systems so it comes up with an error on every single card I have except the PayPal. If I want to use my PayPal to buy things online, I have to wait almost a week to transfer the money from my bank to my PayPal account, and then I have to guess how much I am going to end up spending so I can transfer that much.
I had both my CC hacked last week too. I made a list of vape purchases for both cards just to see if I could narrow it down. Not sure but one website got bad marks on Sucuri but not other security check sites. You could check your purchases and run a check on Sucuri just to see how they test out ?
Those website security checking sites can be a hit and miss. It doesn't protect against an employee peering into the card transaction databases, or a compromised payment processor. They do however help with malware embedded in page advertisements. One thing I always use is Adblock plus for firefox. If I come by a webpage that won't let me view content unless I disable my Adblock, I just close it and find one that doesn't care.
