[sdiy] Credit Card fraud - BEWARE!!!!!!

[Tim Ressel]

Yikes!

Sorry for your troubles, dude. This is a read
eye-opener. Thnaks for letting us know. I hope the
bank makes it right.

This makes me think to open a separate account at my
bank just for such transactions. I cound transfer
money over when I want to make a purchase. That way if
the number got out, the farging bastages could only
drain the secondary account. The other account would
be for rent etc. 

--TR


--- Peter Grenader <petergrenader at mksound.com> wrote:
> Fellow DIYer and lovers of all things analog,
> 
> I recently became the unfortunate victim of ATM/VISA
> card fraud in which
> somebody got my card number duing a so-called secure
> card transaction on the
> internet and quickly depleted my checking account of
> over $3,400.
> 
> I was made aware of this by a call from B of A's
> freud department.  While
> they originally told me that it would all be taken
> care of (including
> reimbursement of my loss) within 72 hours and
> advised me NOT to close the
> account before all the hits had made it, they are
> now telling me not to
> expect a refund until September.
> 
> In the meanwhile, I had not yet paid my rent, or my
> car payment, nor my
> utilities.  
> 
> When I received that call, while they knew thay
> transactions had happened,
> they had no idea what the amounts were and at the
> time, I could have closed
> my account and still had the $3400.  But
> unfortunately, I did as they
> advised  and now it's gone.
> 
> Further to this,  of the 46 transactions this thief
> made, only 31 of them
> have hit my record, with 15 still pending.  Because
> it was an ATM
> transaction, they cannot stop these from hitting my
> account.  Unfortunate in
> that the ones that have made it range from $150 to
> $50 each, so I can expect
> up another $2000 to vanish (not such a big deal, in
> that I'm already at a
> $700 negative balance).
> 
> The problem is, B of A will not allow me to open a
> new account until this
> overdraft has been paid. which could be in the $2700
> range before this is
> over and done with. Even more unfortunate, I am on
> automatic deposit at
> work, so they are going to recieve a good part of
> this by this evening and
> it's too late to stop it.
> 
> Be careful out there - don't believe everything you
> read (especially the
> words 'secure server').
> 
> best,
> 
> Peter Grenader
> 
> 
> 


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