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P.I.T.A. Fraud !!!!

Started by anlauto, January 15, 2019, 08:02:02 PM

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ToxicWolf

I have a wallet that blocks readers too. Very good idea. 😃

dodj

Quote from: Cuda_mark on January 16, 2019, 05:54:51 AM
What is amazing is that the banks catch it so quickly. They must have some seriously powerful AI running on the database of transactions.
:iagree:
Mine has been compromised three times in the last 7, 8, years. Bank caught it immediately.
"There is nothing your government can give you that it hasn't already taken from you in the first place" -Winston Churchill

BIGSHCLUNK

I've had it happen too. Last year my AM EX got cloned from a gas station reader. There was a trail on gas / munchies / car washes from Wisconsin all the way to Florida. One call to Am Ex and it was strait in about 10 minutes. BUT... all the small business people that are stuck with the loss SUX! We've been on that short end at my shop once or twice and it's your out the product... TFB !  There was another time a few yeas ago when I get a call from Dis wanting to know if I just bought gas in Murano Italy..... ahhh nooooo.....


CudaMoparRay

The few times it has happened to me I have gone down to the LAPD station and made a theft report.
The cops tell me even they get taken by this credit card theft and can only make a report just like any citizen with no resolution as to catching the thieves.
The banks and credit card companies know who does it many times but it turns out to be more expensive for them to track them down and prosecute them than it would cost to just not hassle it and take the loss.

73440

I had a fraud additional user on Discover and that card was sent to my address with their name on it, Discover never followed up , too expensive , the person lives in Washington or Oregon last time I checked.

MEK-Dangerous

Quote from: Topcat on January 16, 2019, 06:58:14 AM
Wallets made that block walk by reader/scanners.

I got one for Christmas.

Mike,

  I have one of those too, and have been compromised 3 times in the last year. It is always a situation of buying car parts and having them shipped to an alternate address which flags the transaction . I honestly don't know how they do it, but all it takes is an unscrupulous employee at some website I bought from to see my name and credit card number and run with it. That's my best guess...

jimynick

My wife went to a "do" that a mutual friend held where a nice foreign gentleman sold the ladies silk scarves and dresses etc. and my wife bought a scarf. She went out to lunch 3-4 days later and goes to pay with said card only to have the waitress come back and tell her the card had been declined! Nonplussed, she paid otherwise and came home to call the bank as to what was going on. Imagine her surprise when she was told by the bank that the reason for the declination, was that she had $27,000 on that card! Apparently, the bank never tweaked to the fact that there were charges for something in Canada one day and then several somethings in INDIA the next and then back to Canada etc. etc. They finally sorted it out, but I don't think the "nice foreign gentleman" ever got his comeuppance and I wish me and my friends Smith and Wesson could have made his acquaintance, but alas, no such luck. Caveat emptor!  :stop:
In the immortal words of Jimmy Scott- "pace yourself!"


73_Cuda_4_Me

If you are ordering parts on your laptop, and do not have a wired internet connection, you should be using a 'secure' wireless network - not open for anyone to log into without a password, and with encryption activated (like 'WEP' or better). Your wireless router settings control that. If you just purchase a wireless router and plug it in, 90% of them will run unsecured - meaning someone could "sniff" (extract) your typing card numbers or passwords over that wireless connection.

I have 3 open wireless networks in range of my house, and if I was of ill repute, could find any passwords or text entry done on them... it takes some specific hardware to do that, which I do not have, but then I wouldn't think of doing that anyway. Others would!

Either set your router up with security/encryption, or have a reputable IT person do it...

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