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Well, I'll be damned, it happened again...
Dan W:
My credit card number has been stolen AGAIN :angry: , and walmart.com let the charge go through yesterday. My wife's account with walmart.com does not even show the transaction, despite it being processed on the credit card linked to the account
Thankfully, I am vigilant about checking my accounts online, as I was hit for a large amount of Tmobile cell phone service on my debit card I use for shooting stuff. And another time I was charged for a porno movie at some dive I have never been to :kiss:
CC cards are canceled, credit reports have a fraud alert posted. Good thing I found it early.
RLMoeller:
That sucks Dan.
I know what a pain it is to have to shut down a card and have another reissued. I have done it twice so far this year with a card a don't actively use. That card is only used for auto payment to Verizon and Cox. Very odd, and certainly frustrating.
Dan W:
Thanks Rod,
First time I was hit, I had a card I only used 3 times. A hunting permit from NE Game and Parks, a reloading component order from Midway USA, and a small part from Brownell's.
I gave then all notice I was unhappy one of them let my info get out.
In hindsight it was probably unrelated to those vendors.
bkoenig:
A lot of time it's a 3rd party payment processor that loses your card info. The processors take the payment info from the vendor and pass it along. Look up Heartland Payment Systems - they had spyware installed on their network for months that resulted in hundreds of thousands of cards being stolen.
The state of financial transaction security in the U.S. is awful. There are a lot of safeguards that could easily be put in place that aren't being used because banks and/or consumers think they're too expensive or too time consuming. I've worked in this field for almost 10 years and I've seen hundreds of thousands of dollars lost because a bank was too cheap to spend a couple thousand on prevention.
Chris Z:
Bum Deal! I'm glad you caught it so quick.
I also log into my accounts daily to make sure everything is good
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