SCAMMED: A Lakewood resident has asked us to notify the community, that many individuals credit/debit card holders, have recently been scammed. He received a call from the fraud department when they noticed some suspicious activity on his card. When he called back and entered the prompts, he noticed a purchase of over $500 made on his card in California. It became clear that many other card holders were scammed using the same technique. Apparently, the suspect or suspects, used a card reader to grab the numbers off the card when the card was swiped to make a purchase at the suspects' store and then used the numbers for his own purchases. (TLS)
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Many Scammed With Credit/Debit Card
SCAMMED: A Lakewood resident has asked us to notify the community, that many individuals credit/debit card holders, have recently been scammed. He received a call from the fraud department when they noticed some suspicious activity on his card. When he called back and entered the prompts, he noticed a purchase of over $500 made on his card in California. It became clear that many other card holders were scammed using the same technique. Apparently, the suspect or suspects, used a card reader to grab the numbers off the card when the card was swiped to make a purchase at the suspects' store and then used the numbers for his own purchases. (TLS)
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Is it one store that's been doing this? Which store?
If we're all referring to the same incident: I also got a call from my bank and was told that a local stores account was compromised and that they were notified of this by Visa. You will NOT be able to find out which store. I tried,the bank is not even given that info and Visa will not give it out.
And BTW it did not sound like it was "at a suspects store" rather that a stores computers...simply were hacked. The banker told me that they had a lot of local residents that were called because it was a local store. That can happen to any store. In my case I was told that the merchant had notified Visa that his clients info was compromised.
I had this a few months ago-
I knew which store it was as it was the only store I had used my MasterCard in 4 months (everyone else takes AMEX)
This is funny, the story is actually the opposite. The fraud department is the one committing the fraud.
They call you tell you that someone charged something, then they ask for personal details in the name of "Security" they use those details to make that charge.
Never give out personal info over the phone to an incoming call, call back the number in the back of the card. No matter what the CallerID says.
Tell the caller that for security reasons you'll call back the number on the back of the card.
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