Oh noes! Which one of you stole our credit card number???

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

Apparently someone in Florida is having a fine old time on our dime at Wal-Mart and Old Navy and is buying pooploads of gas. How did this happen???? Were we caught up in the Barnes and Noble number sale or something?

[AmyDeLune]

1. Hey, at least they're buying *good* stuff (more or less)-

the person who swiped my card number bought a *really* crappy cell phone for $300 bucks. Fortunately I caught it quickly and didn't have to pay a dime.

Hope you get it all worked out with minimal fuss and hassle.:)

[FloridaJudy]

2. Not me.

Sure, I live in Florida, but...Walmart?? Old Navy???? That is so not me.

Sorry you're having to deal with this. On the other hand, it could've been Nordstroms, and then you'd really be cooked. At least your low-life has low-life taste.

[Critters2]

3. Old Navy? Wow, they're popular with thieves.

My thief last year bought about $300 worth of stuff from Old Navy, and $250 from Banana Republic--really the same company. And $2000 of sound equipment from some company in upstate NY. In all, about $2800 of ill-gotten gain. My bank refunded all of it, so I'm good. But I hate these bastards.

[yellowdogintexas]

4. hey this just happened to me too. Brand new card, only used it for a few internet

purchases.

Got a letter from the bank, asking if I would please call them to confirm that I had received the card and verify a charge.
so I called them and found out somebody had used the card to buy stuff on line, from some place in Japan and a software service of some kind. They are backing everything out. I spent quite a long while on the phone with their very competent and courteous fraud customer service persons who went over every charge on record to confirm the ones I had actually made. Then they cancelled the card, and backed out all the charges I could not verify.

The next day, they called me back with some additional information and a website I could go to to see one of the orders that had been placed, so I got to see what they tried to order.

All of this activity took place on July 29, and the letter from the bank was in the mail the next day. I received it late Friday Afternoon and couldn't reach the Customer Service dept until Monday.


I suspect the trigger here would have been the mailing address for the products, as it would be different from mine. they didn't have enough purchasing history for me to hit on the fact that I normally don't order software and stuff from Japan, or that the amounts were odd.

so a new card is coming my way and eventually the paper bill that was generated on the 30th of July will get here so I can look it over. This whole thing has really been weird. The fraud guys were asking stuff like did I have kids in the house, etc. I told them my daughter lives in AZ and the card has never been out of my possession; most of the time it is in the desk drawer since my intent with the card was to use for small online purchases or to buy airline tickets on the airline that sponsors the card. (it is a mileage card for an airline, and I got 25,000 miles for applying for it; enough for a free domestic flight round trip) Has to be someone hacking into a website I ordered from which is scary since the first thing I used it for was to donate to a couple of Democrats.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. you did call the bank of course? nt

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

8. Yes, we did contact them

They also patiently went over all of the disputed charges. We are currently in Boston, as you know, and were in Tennessee for a couple of days, so it was very easy to recognize the fraudulent charges because we know exactly how we have used the credit card.

We feel so violated!

[LostInAnomie]

I bet it was this guy.

Awww... man!

[Radical Activist]

6. Yes, someone is using my card to buy online porn.

Outrageous! O8)

[liberaltrucker]

7. A liberal with a credit card these days?

Does not compute..But, HAL, you must compute.
Sorry, Dave 2008 economics are beyond my programmed
parameters. Report the fraud to the authorities to
the 3 credit reporting services.

Unfortunately, the cashless economy has to work out
a few bugs. Good luck!

:hug:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

9. Thank you for the suggestion!

It hadn't even occurred to me, but I contacted one of the credit reporting services, who is supposed to contact the others. Should I trust?

[driver8]

10. I had my identity stolen about 10 years ago. The best advice that

I can give all of you is to NEVER, EVER put your outgoing mail in your mailbox for your postal carrier to pick up. I had my mail stolen and one of my student loan payment coupons had my SSN on it. It took me three years to clear that shit up.