Credit card # stolen

desertrat

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b23hqb said:
Especially for Wenchy - Read some of the previous posts. Please check your accounts - daily. Forget Amazon. Check the credit card you have registered with Amazon. Along with your bank accounts, usually associated with ones credit cards.

If hackers/unscrupulous peeps access kindle, they can, and will access every other financial account you have. Believe it.

Rip-offs happen increasingly, even with "secure" sites.

I use Kindle. And have a CC registered with them. Check that CC account daily...

Woe to those who let others watch over their bank accounts........
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What I am going to do now is use a different card for every online thing I do. Only three realy. If one gets used I should know which one is the one getting hacked. Actually I really wonder about the Shell station out side of gate 1. That place seems to take very long time processing my card. Sometimes I even have to go let them do it at the register. I think I will be paying cash there from now on.
 
b23hqb

b23hqb

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desertrat said:
What I am going to do now is use a different card for every online thing I do. Only three realy. If one gets used I should know which one is the one getting hacked. Actually I really wonder about the Shell station out side of gate 1. That place seems to take very long time processing my card. Sometimes I even have to go let them do it at the register. I think I will be paying cash there from now on.
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Stop all of your cards. Deal with the time on the phone with your CC companies, explain the situation you have, and cancel all cards.

Use cash for a week. If you have a bank.

If you have been compromised on one CC, there is a too good chance that you have been compromised on all your accounts, CC or bank, retirement, etc. And a good chance they have your SSN.

Be very careful.

This is not paranoia. Just reality.\

The internet and "openness" is just an entry point for bad people.....
 
desertrat

desertrat

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b23hqb said:
Stop all of your cards. Deal with the time on the phone with your CC companies, explain the situation you have, and cancel all cards.

Use cash for a week. If you have a bank.

If you have been compromised on one CC, there is a too good chance that you have been compromised on all your accounts, CC or bank, retirement, etc. And a good chance they have your SSN.

Be very careful.

This is not paranoia. Just reality.\

The internet and "openness" is just an entry point for bad people.....
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Thanks.
And banks? No thanks. Heh.
 
GWguy

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One thing I had been told, which seems to make sense, is to get a credit card with a very low limit, like $500, just for Internet purchases. A pre-paid card that you only add just enough to cover your purchases works too.
 
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maxima87

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GWguy said:
One thing I had been told, which seems to make sense, is to get a credit card with a very low limit, like $500, just for Internet purchases. A pre-paid card that you only add just enough to cover your purchases works too.
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My bank has a virtual credit card for online purchases. You activate it, make your purchase, and then can close it. I use that for all purchases online. If the number is stolen, it's from a closed account.
 
GWguy

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maxima87 said:
My bank has a virtual credit card for online purchases. You activate it, make your purchase, and then can close it. I use that for all purchases online. If the number is stolen, it's from a closed account.
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I like that idea. What bank is that?

And what's your acct # so i can give you a reference? :evil:
 
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Commune

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Hey Desertrat... I don't know that it was your online purchases that started this whole thing. I too purchase things with my CPFCU card online from time to time but what seems weird to me is the fact that I also got a letter and phone call from fraud prevention about 2 purchases that were blocked on my card, for airline tickets in Saudi Arabia. I also accrued a fraudulent purchase for 65 dollars from a company called BroadVoice, a voice over ip company, which is also being disputed.

I guess I thought the same as you when this all happened on the 7th to 9th of this month. Now I see that another cpfcu member had the same exact thing happen? I'm wondering if someone at the bank or someone infiltrating the bank got a hold of some numbers... what's the chances that we both went to the very same website that scammed us?
 
Vince

Vince

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I went down to ONE credit card. If that doesn't work, I'll get rid of that one too and go strictly debit. :shrug:
 
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