Identity Theft
 

Well it finally happened to me. I was looking at my credit card activity online the other day and found approximately $5,300 of computer equipment charged to my account. As I clicked through the options online, I found my address had been changed. I also found out there was another charge to the same computer compnay for an additional $3,700, but that one was rejected. So why did the second one go through? AND why didn't they call me when this showed up rejected and later accepted?

I think I must have one of the 300,000 card numbers that got scammed a couple of weeks ago.

I called right away and reported the false charges. They had no explanation of how my address got changed on my account. So now I have been going through hell to get it all cleared up. CITI bank has been EXTREMELY helpful and walked me through many of the steps to fix it all, even got Trans-Union on the phone with me to start the process of fixing my credit report and activating a fraud alert on all my accounts (FREE !!!) I still have to get the information corrected on my credit report from all of the big 3 report companies. Meanwhile I wonder if someone at that address (probably fake) actually received computers. Already got my new card issued and checked my credit report. It looks fine other than the second (fake) address. What a PIA !!!!!!!!!!:fury:

Thanks for all the great stuff Van :hee:

I tried for a Jamaican vacation too but it bounced

these guys suck.

biggest crime in America
 

growing exponentially ....every computer has a mac address
that can be traced same as an IP address.... so i hope
eventually these scum bags get busted....

that creep they just caught in florida had over a million accounts

Your welcome, use it in good health !!!!!!
Sorry you didn't get that "well deserved vacation"....:rotf2::rotf2:
Better luck next time....

I can easily hid my IP (Simple proxy server solves all that), mac addresses aren't really useful to track as you can change them quite easily. I'll spoof my mac address at hotels in order to use two computers on the same internet connection - register with one, and then spoof the other.

Many of these cases occur through the use of hijacked PCs as proxies. Computer gets a trojan, and the scammers then proxy to that IP address for their illegal activities, screwing over 2 people at the same time in process.


I'm sorry that happened to you Van. Seems as though something like this will eventually happen to anyone that has widespread use of a credit card. Because I use my CC for just about all my purchases, I have seriously been considering looking into a credit protection company along the lines of LifeLock.

true enough JD
 

if they are that sophisticated
sometimes they goof up

i wonder how they nabbed the guy in florida
with millions of CC numbered accounts

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AND hey, Salty Bugger doesn't need Noooo Vacation !
heck...he's got his feet up at the crib
chillin by the AC by 2 oclock....
living the life of Riley - i'm telling ya :)

hell his computers and the CC machine
are doing all the work... :uhuh:

he just surfs the internet all day- mostly :rotf2:

even the Motorcycle is on Auto pilot
and he sleeps while going to and from the shop :grins:

ya killin me

Hmmmm.....Nice work if you can get it......

Been there, had that done to me. Someone made a $5 charge to subscription renewal and the next month when we didn't reject it they charged $35 and the next $45. Then $45 per month for 11 months till we, wife and I, reconciled our charges and found it wasn't either of us. Credit card Co covered it and new cards were issued. We paid $10 to each of the big 3 credit companies and had our credit locked up. Now if we want to get a new credit card (nah) or buy something on payments we have to contact all 3 credit commpanies and pay them $10 each to have our credit unlocked for 30 days or to one inquiry. We wanted to shop for insurance the other day and we had to unlock our account for that too. It's a PIA but better than being fleeced by someone other than the govt.

They Stole my Identity once.....then they met the In-laws.....they returned it the next day.

sometimes they only debit your account a small amount (20)

so it will go unnoticed and they continue to do this for a long time.

:rotf2::rotf2::rotf2::rotf2:
I should try that... Aliens would not even think of taking my inlaws !!!!:rotf2:

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[QUOTE=sometimes they only debit your account a small amount (20)so it will go unnoticed and they continue to do this for a long time.[/QUOTE]

Yea Raven.....That is why I watch all my account activities at least every couple of days. I saw that big charge and went to the misses and asked her. She gave me one of those looks.....that is when I realized it was fraud. I found it 2 days after it was charged.

Van- was the new address on your account local? I wonder if the card company keeps tab of that address and compares it to other accounts that have been tapped.

No, the addy was in Laconia, NH. While I had the fraud dept on the phone, they checked that address and told me it has been unoccupied for 3 years, soooooo why didn't that send the red flag that it was fraud !!! I think it is a phony address entirely. Maybe it forwards to somewhere that they pick up the goods.

Terrorist God dam it!,didn't they have an addy in N.H.:uhuh:before they came to Logan Int Apt.

:rotflmao: