Credit Card Fraud after Ordering Juice -- Head's Up folks!

[tjpdx]

My card was flagged for fraud after ordering from alien Visions (my favorite juice) this weekend. Someone bought a car rental in England and my card was charged $1800. The bank is working on it, but it's quite a scare.

Use safepass or a gift card if possible folks! Be safe!

I just wanted to give y'all a heads-up!

AVE isn't the only vendor affected. Check out the thread below.


http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...fraud-weekend-first-time-since-i-started.html

 

[Clearo-Mizer]

Same exact thing happened to me and I ordered from them...happened Saturday ..2 times both were denied one was 2500.00 and the other was 1200.00...Wells Fargo flagged it and called me ...

 

[crxess]

Starting to think someone planted a Key logger on Alien's system. Probably a data mining worm of some sort. Almost has to be in their system/server with the shear number of Frauds from one systems use.
Hopefully it is somewhat isolated and not rampant among our suppliers.

 

[SnifflingDarK]

Thank for the heads up

 

[lilmrsyeti]

Thanks so much for the heads up!! I placed an order from one of those sites mentioned in that thread, yesterday!

 

[doots]

they got me too/// should have used shopsafe, wont happen again.. ordered on sat and charges started on monday night.

 

[Deeo]

I used COD with my kit and juices. This way i know i am not paying for something and not getting it or having someone fraud my credit cards.

 

[Deeo]

If your worried , you can call your credit card company and they will stop your card from being used until they issue you a new one.

 

[JustCallMeJeff]

Thanks for the heads up. Being the noob that I am, I ordered from 3 different companies last night. Fortunately, the one you listed wasn't one of them.

 

[JMarca]

Just curious, what recent legit vapor-based purchases or more specifically vendors have you guys bought from?

Maybe we can put 2 and 2 together and somehow find a link.

 

[StrangeShay]

Thanks for the heads up, they were on my list of possible places to make my first juice purchase.

 

[Kanj.nguyen]

I got hit too, both my cards.

For some reason it seems like this is just happening now all of a sudden to everyone.

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

If hackers can get into Microsoft's top secret area and wander around for a few months it's no big deal for them to hack a website IMO. On this pc I do no financial transactions and it has a crappy free AV prog cuz that's the only one my wife's place of work, a very large financial instsit. will allow cuz it's free- she sometimes works from home. Just got finished removing a Trojan from it that has no patch/ update as of yet. My other pc on which I do lots of daily financial transactions with a separate internet connection has all sorts of protection. Online fraud is and will be the wave of the future.

 

[peraspera]

Visa flagged my card for fraud after I bought a couple of AMP Tanks and some miscellaneous stuff from Avid Vapor. Thankfully, all recent charges were mine.

 

[turbineANT]

Thanks for the warning!

 

[Nefariousfiend]

Ya there is another thread about this

 

[skippydoodle]

I just reported my card after seeing a $244 charge to Sprint Wireless. I don't have Sprint. The card I used is a small one not related to my other banking stuff. I use it just for online purchases and an occasional tank of gas so luckily I could cancel it without a hassle.

I recently purchased from several vendors including Alien Visions, Mountain Oak Vapor, Mt. Baker Vaper and Sweet-Vapes. I also used that card to buy from MadVapes earlier last month. I would assume it was from the AV charge, but I thought I'd post them all in case it rings a bell for anyone else.

btw: what a time to go on a juice sampling spree, eh?

 

[skippydoodle]

Ya there is another thread about this

Would you post a link so we can combine info? I don't see it.

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

Would you post a link so we can combine info? I don't see it.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...fraud-weekend-first-time-since-i-started.html

 

[Racehorse]

I have a separate credit card that is actually a debit card that i ONLY use for online purchases.

I transfer just the exact amount of money I need to it to make a purchase.

Nobody can use the card to charge anything because it is a debit Visa, and will be decined for lack of funds.

your bank can issue you one of these.