They got me today. Someone tried to make 2 purchases both for $8.58 from overseas. CC company caught it and declined them. Thiefs suck. 
Just got CC frauded, need reputable vendors.
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If you use a credit card any time, any place - you have opened yourself up for potential fraud. So unless you plan to do your own investigation and bring charges against an e-cig vendor - with actual evidence - you have no way of knowing what the source of that breach actually was. Even your issuing bank has no obligation to tell you, assuming that MasterCard or VISA even told them. Don't go slandering businesses because unless you actually work for MasterCard or VISA you don't know how your account was frauded. It may have happened months ago, and your account data was only sold recently on the black market. You don't know.
Reloadable prepaid or one use virtual cards are the way to go for internet shopping. They are also a good idea when you are going on a shopping binge instead of your debit card attached to the bank. Thieves can't steal what isn't there.
I didn't slander anyone. Actually made it a point to avoid that. Do you see the names of any vendors? The fact remains that i got frauded the same week i started buying vape things online.
Btw rescanned my PC, which is always running malwarebytes, spybot, and security essentials and turned up nothing.
Seeing as i use my card in the same places always, and the one time i don't i get frauded, I'm going to go with Occams razor on this one.
Btw rescanned my PC, which is always running malwarebytes, spybot, and security essentials and turned up nothing.
Seeing as i use my card in the same places always, and the one time i don't i get frauded, I'm going to go with Occams razor on this one.
security essentials this is possibly the worst antivirus to rely on, i'm not lying here.
Get Pandacloud (free and awesome i use it) Or Avast. (also free)
Also if you're using firefox, get these addons:
No-script
Request policy
Adblock plus
And you should be realy safe to even get a slight risk of getting .... in your computer from bypass attacks and such.
You've to download executables pretty much to get anything bad in your computer with that.
Also when scanning, reboot your computer in safe mode without internet access. That will stop any virus to rename itself if something would be found.
And if someone would be realy anxious or suspecting a keylogger. Install keyscrambler
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Great suggestion to check your computer. Update your antivirus program and run a scan. A good free one is Microsoft security essentials. Also scan for malware. I use malwarebytes. Its also free. Just pay attention when installing and just install the free version not the trial also uncheck any tool bars or other programs that may be included with the installer. When ever purchesi g any thing online make sure the browser says HTTPS and not http. S means its secure and should be encripted connection.
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These are my go to stores, never had a single issue
If you haven't already start checking your account balances daily. I have had 4 different bankcards and it still happens, it even happened to a prepaid debit card. People steal these numbers and can wait months before they ever use them.
It seems if you use all the security tools available that that's better than finding a reputable vendor. When this was happening a lot last year or so, it was at some of the oldest best shops around.
Shop smart and shop anywhere.
Shop smart and shop anywhere.
Happened to me once, I had put in CC info and didn't notice that the site was not secure. This was a vendor located in Texas. When you see https, the "s" following the http indicates secure. Well, this time I had missed that and put the order through. The vendor did eventually fix their security, but I never ordered again from them anyway...despite a fantastic selection of juices. On my end, I keep things secure, virus protection running full time and updated automatically. Another thing I like to do whenever doing anything dealing with money, never type in passwords or CC info using the keyboard. Bring up your onscreen keyboard and use mouse clicks instead. In case your virus scanner may miss something and a key logger does get through, mouse clicks would be much harder to track as opposed to key strokes. On a Windows operating system, typically the WINDOWS/U keys (at same time) will bring up your menu (Ease of Access Center) for the on screen keyboard. It is IMO a very good habit to get into when entering passwords or numbers dealing with money. In my situation, I had done that obviously but still was compromised most likely because I submitted info to a non-secure site...my bad. My bank picked up on it immediately and shut down my debit card. I was coming home from work, stopped to get gas and my card was no longer working. When I contacted the bank they informed me of the fraudulent activity. I was reimbursed by my bank within a week. The offending party was located in Korea using some type of online gaming service called netmarble. It was a series of small charges totally maybe around $150-200.
I'm a newbie too and I've only ever used one vender that wasn't local. Madvapes. I've never had any problems.
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