Obama looking for donations.
..that you pay well to say?
I was quite recently a victim of such fraud/theft. Some idiot in Ireland, of all places, got hold of my ATM card number and had a field day, cleaning out my checking account in one day.
Thank God I bank at a credit union that holds you not liable for a penny of such fraud. Got it all back in a couple days, but a lot of merchants in Ireland got stuck for some pretty hefty tabs (electronics, hardware, etc., etc.).
Oh, that’s just wonderful.
Oh, goody! Won’t this be fun!
Great— compromised for over a month, from 1/21/12 to 2/25/12. Nice work.
Two years ago I got in an argument with Master Card. Someone charged $16000 to my card to buy a Suzuki motorcycle in Brisbane, Australia.
here’s the zinger. MasterCard had just sent me a new card the week before. The card had a new account number on it, a new 3-digit security code and, the best part, I had not activated the card yet. It took me 3 months of arguing with them before they took off the charges and almost a year before they fixed the currency exchange fees.
We are under attack by the chinese, russia, and our government..
SOB’S got me in Jan. this year. Fortunately the credit card “Visa” which I got thru. our credit union called me and said they had a red flag on my account. “Did I just pay for a hotel room in Australia for $597.” Hell no! I’m in Virginia. Told them to cancel my account, but they already had a block on it. They sent me some papers to sign, for investigation purposes and ultimately that was the end of it. They send me a new care which I have in tin foil tape in my wallet. So now both wife n I have our wallets sealed in tin foil tape. I rarely ever use a credit card so not sure how they got it in the first place. I would like to choke the s**T out of the culpret.
since the thread is full of stories, had my card duped while in philadelphia 6 years ago. only had used it 2 places, thomas jefferson hospital (where the lady had physically taken it out of my sight several minutes) and a hotel where it was in my sight but I didn’t really pay attention.
Wonder how much the lady got paid.
attempted 3k euro charge in italy shortly thereafter.
I doubt it was Anonymous, there are plenty of other people out there seeking to steal credit card data.
Its pathetic how poorly some companies care for your data. I’ve had many tell me “well I haven’t had a problem so why would I spend money to fix it”
That guy had no firewall, no encryption, and lots of healthcare and credit card data.
Oh, no, all our account balances have been reset to zero, what are we gonna do?
Big corporations get to lose our data that they are entrusted with and it ends up as we the customers being responsible for the inconvenience and potential loss of our ID. We the victims are made responsible. They say, yeah we lost your data but you can buy an insurance policy to protect against loss of your ID for only $10 a month.
It would serve society better and result in much more secure transaction and data policies if the corporations were either held totally responsible for our ID protection and loss henceforth, and/or if they were required to pay an assessment for every record lost to the owners of that data - US. They need to be held responsible and not be able to pass the buck to customers.
It might serve us better if our data was held encrypted on our card and it was only in the system during the actual transaction and not actually stored there
Three weeks later the gas station was closed and I had a new card from MC. Pain in the a$$, but the happy part was that some people evidently got what was coming to them.
By the way, I'm impressed with MC and the oil company. When you are an actual witness to fraud, you are treated to amazing efficiency, your calls travel up the chain instantly and numerous teams call you for details. I was quite impressed.