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Fraudulent Credit Card use Han 01-18-2008
Posted by Han on January 18, 2008, 8:42 pm
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 Received a call from Sears Mastercard (Citibank) questioning charges to my
CC. I haven't used the card much at all in all the nyears I had it.
Lately once in July, once in Sptember, then once at Kmart around Christmas
time. I received the bill a few days back, paid it off online, today get
that call about a total of over (#)) $ in charges.

How do "they" get my card number? Good thing they have some kind of
monitoring. I of course canceled the account - I have other cards.

Just gives me the creeps ...

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Best regards
Han
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Posted by David H. Lipman on January 18, 2008, 9:20 pm
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| Received a call from Sears Mastercard (Citibank) questioning charges to my
| CC. I haven't used the card much at all in all the nyears I had it.
| Lately once in July, once in Sptember, then once at Kmart around Christmas
| time. I received the bill a few days back, paid it off online, today get
| that call about a total of over (#)) $ in charges.
|
| How do "they" get my card number? Good thing they have some kind of
| monitoring. I of course canceled the account - I have other cards.
|
| Just gives me the creeps ...
|

Its a tough world out there Han.

Did you get an accounting of what those charges were and where (including
locale) they were
made ?

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Dave
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Posted by Han on January 19, 2008, 7:13 am
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>
>| Received a call from Sears Mastercard (Citibank) questioning charges
>| to my CC. I haven't used the card much at all in all the nyears I
>| had it. Lately once in July, once in Sptember, then once at Kmart
>| around Christmas time. I received the bill a few days back, paid it
>| off online, today get that call about a total of over (#)) $ in
>| charges.
>|
>| How do "they" get my card number? Good thing they have some kind of
>| monitoring. I of course canceled the account - I have other cards.
>|
>| Just gives me the creeps ...
>|
>
> Its a tough world out there Han.
>
> Did you get an accounting of what those charges were and where
> (including locale) they were made ?
>
No accounting yet (I doubt that I will get that). I'm to get a form with
questions for an affidavit or something, and I'll be glad to fill that
out if it will help get the crook in jail.

(Of course someone could have transposed some digits in the credit card
HE has).


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Best regards
Han
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Posted by Oilcan on January 19, 2008, 5:54 pm
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Seems to be a common problem with Citibank. Samething happened to my AT&T
Universal (I don't actively use). They closed the account automattically
and mailed me a new Card and an affadavit. Didn't get any bills from them.

Oilcan
>
>>
>>| Received a call from Sears Mastercard (Citibank) questioning charges
>>| to my CC. I haven't used the card much at all in all the nyears I
>>| had it. Lately once in July, once in Sptember, then once at Kmart
>>| around Christmas time. I received the bill a few days back, paid it
>>| off online, today get that call about a total of over (#)) $ in
>>| charges.
>>|
>>| How do "they" get my card number? Good thing they have some kind of
>>| monitoring. I of course canceled the account - I have other cards.
>>|
>>| Just gives me the creeps ...
>>|
>>
>> Its a tough world out there Han.
>>
>> Did you get an accounting of what those charges were and where
>> (including locale) they were made ?
>>
> No accounting yet (I doubt that I will get that). I'm to get a form with
> questions for an affidavit or something, and I'll be glad to fill that
> out if it will help get the crook in jail.
>
> (Of course someone could have transposed some digits in the credit card
> HE has).
>
>
> --
> Best regards
> Han
> email address is invalid



Posted by Margaret on January 20, 2008, 1:04 pm
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Oilcan wrote:
> Seems to be a common problem with Citibank. Samething happened to my AT&T
> Universal (I don't actively use). They closed the account automattically
> and mailed me a new Card and an affadavit. Didn't get any bills from them.

Not that CC fraud isn't a huge problem in general these days, but I
believe Citibank had some sort of security breach some months back. I
had *two* Citibank cards compromised within a month or so of each other.
The first time, Citibank sent me a letter saying that had reason to
believe my account had been compromised and were thus issuing me a new
card. (I'd seen no bogus transactions.) The replacement CC was
compromised a few weeks later, and I found out when two mailorder
companies called me to confirm the transactions. (They were suspicious
even though Citibank had authorized the charges, because (1) I was not a
customer of those companies, and (2) the merchandise was to be shipped
to a third-party address. When I immediately called Citibank, it took
quite a bit to convince them it was the replacement card I wanted closed
due to fraud. They thought I was talking about the first card, closed
weeks before! But when I finally convinced them to go through the
impending transactions, there were a few more bogus ones, which they
voided immediately.

Now I download my Quicken transactions daily, but it does take a bit
before transactions actually appear. I was lucky that those companies
were suspicious and called me immediately. What blew me away, is that
Citibank went ahead and authorized "ship to third party" transactions
seemingly w/o a second thought. I *always* ship to my billing address
(home), and I'd never used those companies. So this purchasing behavior
was not typical of me.

Anyway, I went ahead and put a fraud alert on my credit reports, which
will expire in a few days. And *that* makes me a little nervous.

Regards,

Margaret

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