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<blockquote data-quote="ratski" data-source="post: 2357552" data-attributes="member: 936"><p>Had the CC on file at WalMart compromised. Someone hacked in and ordered about 2K in electronics. What they forgot to do was change the email address that confirmation was sent to. I started getting the confirmation emails. Went on line and checked, none had been shipped. I cancelled them all and then called the CC company.</p><p></p><p>Had a waitress/bartender combo take a CC number at a local restaurant. Got a call from the CC company one Saturday AM asking if I had purchased 4 tickets to a concert totaling something like 1600 bucks. Told them "No" and they declined the charges.</p><p></p><p>Had my daughter's car broken into and they took her purse and ATM card. I'd imagine she had the PIN written somewhere as they started hitting cash machines and got over 2000 dollars in cash. A significant overdraft of her account. I raised hell with the bank and asked how that could happen. Well, it turned out that her card was linked to my accounts and the bank had given me a daily cash withdrawal amount equal to my account balance instead of the standard $150 dollars in cash per day limit. The bank took care of that one and we all learned an important lesson.</p><p></p><p>Went to Sams to get gas. I misread the prompt. It kept saying "Receipt printer is out of paper. Do you want to proceed." So, I said "no" and moved to the next pump. Same thing. Got this three times in a row before getting gas. So I had swiped my card at a gas pump in the same station 4 times. By the time I drove the 1.5 miles to my house, I had a message on the answering machine from the company that they had frozen my card due to some unusual activity. I called them and explained my stupidity. They said that the first place most stolen cards are used is at the gas pump to fill up everybody's tank.</p><p></p><p>Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ratski, post: 2357552, member: 936"] Had the CC on file at WalMart compromised. Someone hacked in and ordered about 2K in electronics. What they forgot to do was change the email address that confirmation was sent to. I started getting the confirmation emails. Went on line and checked, none had been shipped. I cancelled them all and then called the CC company. Had a waitress/bartender combo take a CC number at a local restaurant. Got a call from the CC company one Saturday AM asking if I had purchased 4 tickets to a concert totaling something like 1600 bucks. Told them "No" and they declined the charges. Had my daughter's car broken into and they took her purse and ATM card. I'd imagine she had the PIN written somewhere as they started hitting cash machines and got over 2000 dollars in cash. A significant overdraft of her account. I raised hell with the bank and asked how that could happen. Well, it turned out that her card was linked to my accounts and the bank had given me a daily cash withdrawal amount equal to my account balance instead of the standard $150 dollars in cash per day limit. The bank took care of that one and we all learned an important lesson. Went to Sams to get gas. I misread the prompt. It kept saying "Receipt printer is out of paper. Do you want to proceed." So, I said "no" and moved to the next pump. Same thing. Got this three times in a row before getting gas. So I had swiped my card at a gas pump in the same station 4 times. By the time I drove the 1.5 miles to my house, I had a message on the answering machine from the company that they had frozen my card due to some unusual activity. I called them and explained my stupidity. They said that the first place most stolen cards are used is at the gas pump to fill up everybody's tank. Dave [/QUOTE]
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