Crazy... My Credit Card got Stolen. :(

M sure the company will find out!! they are not gonna let there $5200 go down the drain. There are CCTV's all over!!

This happened to a friend of mine. The credit card company called him up because he was buying petrol and someone else was purchasing 2 macbook pros with his credit card at exactly the same time (in a location about 20 minutes drive away).

The man was caught and the laptops were returned. If I were you I'd report this straight away to maximize the chances of this person getting caught.

Glad to hear you got your money back.

-Simon

This happened to me but with a debit card.

Someone installed a card scanner in one of the stores you shop in. (or they just hand wrote the info - say a waiter at a restaurant)

Then, that info gets passed to someone who prints fake cards, all the numbers are right and everything. Looks legit.

That's exactly what happened to me. And there was a sudden burst of of people's cards getting "stolen" in my area - they ended up finding the store that had the scanner I think.

Savvy, and pretty evil.

Rob

Yeah that totally sucks. My wife had a CC missing for a month before we knew it. There were all these charges to convenience stores for odd amounts, nothing large. She opened the bill up one day and asked me if I had been charging things at several different gas stations, I'm like no. She went to look for her card and couldn't find it. The CC company took care of it all.

I tend to think this is a common thing now days.

Hail to the Brooklyn bomber! My father was born in Brooklyn. What a tale.

Friend of mine had the same thing happen. Punk spent big time off his business card number and ruined his credit. He went on a mission and tracked the guy down with the cops. He testified against the rat in court and sent him to the slammer.

Sounds like someone is having a jolly good time at your expense! Report it immediately, contact the police, and you wont be responsible for any of those charges. Good luck.

same thing happened to me. Someone open 15 World of Warcraft account with my one card. I dod not know how World of Warcraft did not recognize that this was an issue, but they got away with it anyway. Some people right? If they just put the amount of time they take learning how to do that on the Warrior Forum, then they would be doing much better

My old bank didn't have the same theft protection coverages for my Debit card as it did for my Visa. I'm more careful about that these days and really try to keep an eye on it.

The credit card companies won't pursue anything over XX amount of dollars. Each company's policy is different. They simply write it off because it'll cost more in labor to pursue it.

I am sorry for the unfortunate news. What I would recommend is going to your CC company's website and setting up e-mail/text alerts for when your card has been charged a certain amount of dollars. Also, most of the time the CC company will call you right away and tell you that there is unusual activity on your account and ask you if you really did make those charges. Those are some things I recommend you enquire about. Good luck.

I had a similar thing happen to me. I went out for 3 hours, just THREE!!!!!! I sometimes come back in a matter of minuts, so it was a DUMB move on thre part. Anyway, a pair of crooks came to rob everyone within perhaps 30 feet of some stairs, and that included ME. Among other things, they stole some credit cards. Reading through the charges, it is obvious that it was an EXTRAVAGENT, RICH, HISPANIC, ETHNIC, WOMAN, that was a kind of GIRLY GIRL, and they ran up charges of THOUSANDS of dollars in less than a day!

BTW I was a MODEST, WHITE, NON ETHNIC, MAN, that lived BELOW my means! I actually got a threatening letter from a credit card company that said if I didn't use my credit card, I would LOSE it! I NEVER charged $1000 in a day.

Within an hour, I told the police, and the credit card company. I ALSO, rather quickly gave the police paperwork that it is ******AGAINST FEDERAL LAW****** to release!!!!!!!!
I EVEN did an initial investigation AND, according to one knowledgable about one company ***THAT I WOULD NEVER GO TO***, "THEY WOULD BE REMEMBERED!"!

SO, WHAT HAPPENED? A month or so later, I get a message from the police saying that my case is "Open but inactive"! So what does that mean? It means "We don't have enough evidence to find the crooks, and haven't found the criminals, so we have decided to GIVE UP! But don't worry! If we happen to find the crooks magically somehow, we have a note to see if they are the ones that stole from YOU!"! SERIOUSLY, THAT is what it means! I even asked the police if my understanding was right!

I went to the police! I said I gave them my receipts that were LEGAL EVIDENCE that said WHERE they went and WHEN, and that an employee of the shoe store, where they bought over $700 worth of SHOES and the people were ON COMMISSION, said they WOULD be remembered! The jerk said NEXT time I should take it in. "Things can get lost in the mail". I said "Nice try, I DID deliver it RIGHT HERE to THIS desk. If you check that camera, you will find I DID do that several weeks ago!". HIS response? "Give us another copy! He probably didn't steal it anyway! Thieves usually sell the cards.".

I told him, as I am telling you, he could STILL lead you to the thief, and stealing by proxy IS a felony! It is known as "Receipt of stolen goods". Since NOBODY would legitimately do that, it is ALSO "Being an accomplice after the fact". Since they clearly did NOT legitimately own the credit card, nor intend to pay, it is ALSO "CREDIT FRAUD"!!!!! So they ARE thieves, and should STILL be thrown in jail!

THE POLICE DON'T CARE!

Steve

Funny story. Glad to hear you got your money back. Pity you didn't catch the guy. How did he use your card since you had it in your wallet(on internet obviously)?

This happened to me with my paypal debit card awhile back..

We bought hotel reservations using hotels.com

The next day we check our balance, and someone in UK had apparently created a fake debit card with our card number, name, expiration date.. EVERYTHING - and they used it as a credit card (they had to sign for the purchase)

They bought 2 train tickets in United Kingdom. I immediately called paypal & cancelled the card & had a replacement sent out, and explained that we live in South Carolina - Needless to say, we werent in UK.

So we got the $ back, then I called hotels.com to let them know about their security problems. They kept insisting that their website was secure, there was no problems, blah blah..

So I tell them we've been using the card for over 3 years, and we've NEVER had anything like this happen. Not once, until the day after we bought our reservations thru them.

They hung up on me. :|

lol yeah, it was such a joke man.

I didnt threaten to sue them or anything like that. I just wanted them to know what happened so they could put something in place to stop it from happening to others.

And instead of welcoming my story, they hang up on me.. lol

Oh well.. I wont be making my reservations with them ever again, so its their loss.

My sister helped her credit union put a woman in jail for using her card number.

I have received calls from AMEX and my bank to ask about purchases that were "questionable." Turned out that they were purchases I had made but I was glad they were on top of things.

Joe Mobley