CC hacked, anyone else local to Knoxville?

[Dolomite_supafly]

Just wanted to see if anyone else local to Knoxville has had any odd charges.

Mine are from Bahrain Trading company out of Iraq and Fly Dubai out of Dubai.

I have only made 3 purchases online using the CC number in the last few months.

This CC has only been active for only about 8 months now. Last one was cancelled after a 1/2 dozen $1 ITunes purchases.

Dolomite

[ls3_kid]

No but I recently received a check in the mail with my full name on it for $2,750. It came from a company called "Conners and Sweet Inc" and a bank located in IL. I had no idea what it was from so I called the bank and they told me to report it as fraud. I finally found out what happens; You cash the check, somebody calls you a few days later saying it was a mistake and if you could transfer the money to them, then the bank will contact you saying that the check didn't pass and you owe them the certain amount of money taken out + fees.

Just thought I would throw that out there so nobody makes the wrong choice with it.

Sorry for thread jack, back on topic.

[Murgatroy]

The only odd charges on any of my cards can be directly traced back to my wife.

[Erik88]

both of my cards have been hacked this year. It's a major P.I.T.A.

[Guest clownsdd]

all my wife's charges are odd, using mine or her's!

[Daniel]

Just wanted to see if anyone else local to Knoxville has had any odd charges.

Mine are from Bahrain Trading company out of Iraq and Fly Dubai out of Dubai.

I have only made 3 purchases online using the CC number in the last few months.

This CC has only been active for only about 8 months now. Last one was cancelled after a 1/2 dozen $1 ITunes purchases.

Dolomite

Possibly have a keylogger on your comp?

[Guest possumbarnes]

Just another reason NOT to have credit cards. I still have 2 but they are locked. I'll close them when they're payed off.

[peejman]

*opens new tab and checks online account* *sigh* Nope, no unusual traffic on my account. I really did spend that much.

[Glenn]

Just wanted to see if anyone else local to Knoxville has had any odd charges.

Mine are from Bahrain Trading company out of Iraq and Fly Dubai out of Dubai.

I have only made 3 purchases online using the CC number in the last few months.

This CC has only been active for only about 8 months now. Last one was cancelled after a 1/2 dozen $1 ITunes purchases.

Dolomite

Yep. $1,000 to rent a sports car in Paris

Glenn

[Dolomite_supafly]

These aren't actual credit cards. Just debit cards I use for a few online purchases that won't take PayPal. I religiously use Paypal for anything and everything I can. Their protections are better than most credit card companies. They have helped me on a few occassions without question.

Dolomite

[Rightwinger]

These aren't actual credit cards. Just debit cards I use for a few online purchases that won't take PayPal. I religiously use Paypal for anything and everything I can. Their protections are better than most credit card companies. They have helped me on a few occassions without question.

Dolomite

Had to close my debit card last month because the bank saw a suspicious purchase from the "Office of Overseer". That's all they would tell me. I too will be moving to loadable cards in the near future for purchases and just dump what I need into it.

[JC57]

Mine just got hacked last week.. Turns out it was a virus with a rootkit that infected my work PC. It found my CC number in an e-mail attachment that I had sent in to my corporate travel office 4 years ago when setting up a corporate traveler profile.

Only thing that showed up was a little $16 charge but that's probably just the start so I had the issuer cancel the card and send me a new one. Had that card forever, pretty much had the number memorized.

The rootkit was a TDSS variant, which can be cleaned by a free downloadable tool from Kaspersky Antivirus called "TDSSKiller" - but the version I had was smart enough to know about the removal tool, and would block it from launching.

To the OP - go out to the Kaspersky Labs site and download the program: http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363

If you try to run it and nothing happens (i.e. the program doesn't launch) then you've got the same version of the virus that I had. I ended up having to edit the version info in the Kaspersky executable using a tool called Resource Tuner: www.restuner.com , which luckily has a free trial period.

Edited June 29, 2011 by JC57
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[Guest Oaklands]

The only odd charges on any of my cards can be directly traced back to my wife.

What he said!

[Oh Shoot]

Mastercard called me about a year, maybe 14 months ago, I hadn't looked at billing since last bill; asked if I'd bought any airline tickets to fly out of Ohare. Kuwati Airlines I believe. Nope. So that, and oddly, two or three other small charges were zapped, they canceled card and FedExed me a new one.

Had card since '90 or so, use for majority of purchases since I get decent kickback, that was first prob ever had, and this one really didn't turn out to be one either.

- OS

[analog_kidd]

I've been thinking about opening up another account at my bank, and using that only for Internet purchases. I'll keep $100 in it and transfer money as needed to make a purchase.

Also, on my credit card and debit card, I wrote with a bold Sharpie pen "Check ID" on the front and back of the card. If anyone steals it, hopefully a chashier would see that. If nothing else it would discourage a bad guy from trying to use it. Of course that won't help if the BG tries to use it online.