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

[Moho Disco]

Wow, you are lucky that Paypal reimbursed you.  They usually aren't
so nice.

Lava

At 08:12 PM 8/5/2002 +0000, sbernardi at attbi.com wrote:
>A similar thing happened to me.  Someone got hold of the
>numbers on my wife's B of A debit card, and opened a
>PayPal account linked to it, then sent about $1000 worth
>of payments to another account. We know it happened from
>a local merchant because they also had the extra 3
>digits that are on the physical card only.
>PayPal reimbursed us, and we cancelled the Debit card
>and "downgraded" it to an ATM card.
> > 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
> >
> >
> >