http://millvalley.backtalk.com/archives/credit-card-fraud/ A family of four remembers the year ahead Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:09:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://millvalley.backtalk.com/archives/credit-card-fraud/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Margaret Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:51:14 +0000 http://millvalley.backtalk.com/archives/credit-card-fraud/#comment-33 Don't feel bad. They did the same thing to me. Only I was in the hospital when it happened in September 2007. They sent me a new card while I was in the hospital, but I didn't realize it for 10 days. Now I am cancelling magazine subscriptions, four book clubs and I'm getting calls for extended car warranties, setting up my own home business, etc., that the people say I signed up for on the internet. The thief also bought itunes with my card. And Itunes won't tell you if there is an account in your name without you suing them. So I called Citibank. They couldn't (or wouldn't?) tell me how my account was compromised, only that MasterCard informed them it was. I think they should tell us what merchant's security is so lax so we don't buy there anymore. But all they do is fine the merchant $5000. It obvious the person who got the card number only benefitted by the itunes. Everything else they did was sent to my home address. Nice, huh? I'm still waiting for the magazine subscriptions to stop. Don’t feel bad. They did the same thing to me. Only I was in the hospital when it happened in September 2007. They sent me a new card while I was in the hospital, but I didn’t realize it for 10 days. Now I am cancelling magazine subscriptions, four book clubs and I’m getting calls for extended car warranties, setting up my own home business, etc., that the people say I signed up for on the internet. The thief also bought itunes with my card. And Itunes won’t tell you if there is an account in your name without you suing them. So I called Citibank. They couldn’t (or wouldn’t?) tell me how my account was compromised, only that MasterCard informed them it was. I think they should tell us what merchant’s security is so lax so we don’t buy there anymore. But all they do is fine the merchant $5000. It obvious the person who got the card number only benefitted by the itunes. Everything else they did was sent to my home address. Nice, huh? I’m still waiting for the magazine subscriptions to stop.

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