Dam hackers!

Everyone of them should be given life in prison.
Anywho I was going thru my online bank statement and I found it odd that my balance was lower than usual. So I was going thru the statement and came across one I didn't recognize.

So I called my bank and he looked at it and said it was odd especially looking at my history. This one was from Hlink Ho Chi Mihn very odd so we canceld the debit card and started paper work on refunds.

So I did some further investigating and found about 8-10 transaction and purchases that I never made so I printed out everyone and some were from Amazon and some of those didn't jive with my purchase prices and my statements online. So I went to the bank and gave my bank all the info on these and he started all the paperwork to get my money back.

2 of the purchases had phone # so I called tham and asked who they were, 1 was a clothing distributer the other was an email server place.

I asked him if I will get all the money back he said yes I should. When I got home I called Amazon about what happened and it made me mad that the service rep was a foreigner hate that. I checked all my purchases over the last 2 months and all but 4 didn't jive. So I'm thinking this is where my card # was hacked from.

I have since canceled everything from where I make purchases and the funny thing about 95% are all from music sites.

This bites the big. To those of you who but from Amazon be careful or be careful any of the other sites.

My banker said they most likely hacked into smaller sites and stole numbers. Usually bigger places immediately called your bank or credits card company to inform them of this activity that's why I find odd Amazon didn't inform.

Wargod50

Thanks for this notification. I'll be staying clear of them for a while and considering I'm using my dad's paypal through it I'll have to inform him too

Some people are right bitches! I'm so sorry that this happened to you!

I haven't had a problem like that with amazon yet... (knock on wood). Sorry to hear about your misfortune. Hope you get all you money back.

Did you use PayPal, Wargod?

Sorry to hear this happen.

My parents' bank account was nearly wiped out a few months ago. Somehow, someone hacked into their bank and took their account info with a number of others. They still haven't, and probably won't, get all of their money back. Police never caught the person either.

I think they hit again!

kmorg wrote:

I think they hit again!

I once had my credit card information accessed by someone in Russia. They placed orders worth $600 on it.

Fortunately, I was informed of this early, and we were able to cancel the credit card information, so I wouldn't officially be charged.

I've never had that trouble from Amazon.Hopefully you''ll get all your money back.

A few months ago some jackass hacked my Paypal account and tried to transfer $900 out of my bank account. I closed my Paypal account after stopping the transaction. My wife also fell victim to that scam a little back in which a con artist will break into your e-mail and then e-mail your friends and family, telling them you're stranded in Europe and need hundreds of dollars to get home and please send the money to such and such a place. That was a real pain in the ass to get resolved but fortunately no one actually sent any money.

This is why I live paycheck to paycheck.

Would you believe this shite!

Quote :

Dear Kenneth A.

Thank you for your subscription to http://www.firstchit.com.

You have been billed as CCBILL LLC for the amount of: $19.90(USD) for 30 days then $19.90(USD) recurring every 30 days.


Your new subscription identification number is: 0209350301000002479, please keep this number in a safe place, as it will be required for reference in all future correspondence regarding your membership.

Your membership access information is:
Username for your subscription: aslbnlse
Password for your subscription: 12341012
Membership website: http://www.firstchit.com

For your convenience, because you chose the rebill option at purchase, your subscription will automatically be renewed until it expires, or until you choose to cancel your membership.

For further details regarding this transaction and direct access to our online billing support services, available 24-hours a day, 365-days a year, please click here.

Thank you for choosing CCBill as the eMerchant for your subscription!

That's a porn site! From my bank:

12/16/2009 CCBill.com 888-5969279 AZUS Tran Date/Time: 12/16/2009 07:01:57 $19.90

WTF? And I did order through Amazon the other day. =(

Yikes! I ordered from Amazon about a week ago... haven't noticed any funny business with my credit card yet but will definitely look closer @ my next bill...

I called this ccbill.com place, and they have ALL my info—full name, address, card number, CV number, everything. But here's the weird part: all the user info for this site was sent to my e-mail address. What does some have to gain, unless the run this website or get kick-backs for stealing card numbers and opening subscriptions?

They also gave me an IP address: 76.252.54.249 It's apparently out of Indiana.

Can't be Amazon then. They don't require your CV number.

That's pretty scary, K.

SpectreFate wrote:

Can't be Amazon then. They don't require your CV number.

That's pretty scary, K.

Oh yeah? WTF?

Is Amazon the only place you used your card recently?

Does Swap A CD use your CV number?

SpectreFate wrote:

Is Amazon the only place you used your card recently?

Does Swap A CD use your CV number?

I use paypal for SACD. Ill have to pay more attention to Amazon.

I check my bank account nearly everyday. My SS# has been stolen twice, from a hospital and from a past employee so I luckily was put on one of those credit watch places. It's rampant folks.

SpectreFate wrote:

Is Amazon the only place you used your card recently?

Does Swap A CD use your CV number?

No, they don't. I order stuff all the time. Considering they have all my info, I'm thinking someone else was hacked and my info stolen.

TheNazgul wrote:

I check my bank account nearly everyday. My SS# has been stolen twice, from a hospital and from a past employee so I luckily was put on one of those credit watch places. It's rampant folks.

First time it's happened to me, but I know a lot of people it's happened to. I've been had for $19.90, unless I can get ccbill.com to refund me (right now they won't; claiming I can't prove a fraud...suuuuure).

Not funny that I make a joke in this thread, then a day or so later I get hit for the first time ever! Haha.

TheNazgul wrote:

I check my bank account nearly everyday. My SS# has been stolen twice, from a hospital and from a past employee so I luckily was put on one of those credit watch places. It's rampant folks.

My state allows for us to put a freeze on who may access credit info which deters a lot of fraud. It can be inconvenient to have to unfreeze it to apply for a car loan etc but its worth it.

That wont elmininate the credit card fraud but it does help a little.

I think a few public castrations would stem some of this.

TheNazgul wrote:

I think a few public castrations would stem some of this.

you are not once for mincing words huh...

Well, this turned out to be rather harmless. Scary, of course, but I only got charged $19.90, and luckily I caught it almost immediately because the dummy used my e-mail address so I got the confirmation e-mail. Had I not, I'm not sure I would have thought much about a $19.90 charge from CCBill.com.

After cussing out a manager, I was able to get CCBill to refund my money. So all is well...until they get me again. =(