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Japonicus

Japonicus

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One email read Your credit card ending in xxxx has been linked to...That was my last 4, ...
So I called the CC and a charge of nearly $2000 had gone through to a business here in WV.
Some Heavy Timber Truss place I called in Elkview, WV. They said it happened last week as well.

These emails are international from a high school in New York, China, to a carwash in Australia.
So To receive so many of these in one day it must be a bot.

Though most are to confirm my email for new subscriptions, it also shows somebody got my
CC, full name, phone number and address. I doubt this is from buying the tickets to the 8th Ntl Bonsai exhibit
but I did use this card most recently for that. I do not use this card very often, but now I had it shut down.
What a mess in my email, and in my inbox.
 
Good luck, friend! My energies and thoughts are with you.

I hope it didn't get too far.

So glad you got to address it quickly.

Even simple stuff can really have lasting resonance.

A childhood friend's mother placed a cable bill in her name/social in 1996, when she was 5...

And she JUST found out about it, in full...in 2015.

😓

Her credit and security regarding her identity is STILL a mess.. even with the fraud people helping.
 
So sorry to hear this @Japonicus. Hopefully you get it sorted out and are not out any actual $. We've had our checking account, both CC and debit cards hacked at one time or another. I even had my debit card stolen out of my purse by a furniture delivery guy. Luckily, the CC companies/banks questioned the charges and we weren't out anything.
 
Carol 83 said:
So sorry to hear this @Japonicus. Hopefully you get it sorted out and are not out any actual $. We've had our checking account, both CC and debit cards hacked at one time or another. I even had my debit card stolen out of my purse by a furniture delivery guy. Luckily, the CC companies/banks questioned the charges and we weren't out anything.
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Yeh, we've had several cards hacked over the years, but not our checking acct. I think the most of these emails were bot related. Only 4 so far today. Even had to contact the CC company to stop payment for Paramount+ since they keep charging after multiple attempts to cancel with them.
 
Japonicus said:
but not our checking acct. I
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Apparently someone at Wal-mart made a copy of the check I wrote there and made fake checks. We live in a very small town and the bank called me very embarrassed that our checking account was overdrawn. Someone made fake checks with our last name spelled wrong and used the identical check number 4 times to write checks for cash to themselves. When I pointed out that they should recognize these weren't our checks and the name wasn't even spelled correctly they immediately closed the account, opened a new one and gave us free new checks forever.
 
I get weekly emails thanking me for my payment for McAfee antivirus software. The emails include links and phone numbers to call. And the sender is always easily identifiable as having nothing to do with McAfee antivirus. One was from missypup1. The one I got today was in Arabic. The scam must work some of the time or they wouldn't keep trying it. I've had fraudulent charges against my debit card earlier this summer and that's a pain, but so far I haven't been out any $$.
 
Also.. watch out for "wrong number" text messages...

You try to be helpful... This is a mistake.

I'm very skeptical, and can usually smell a scam a mile away.

...

First one, I personally received, was from (but not really).. a woman, here in New York City from Singapore on business... Many things struck me as odd. But I continued to participate in her conversation, seemingly all stemming from my "good nature for responding to the text message" as talking points.

After an hour or so.. I caught on.. as they were very adamant in getting me to invest in cryptocurrency, and could "handle it all for me."...

So I kept them slightly interested and began taking record of our interactions.. kept records of all numbers/accounts used, with screenshots.. and turned it over to the authorities... Who told me this was a very common Indonesian/Singapore "romance/friend" scam.. I can't recall the name...

6 months later, I get a wrong number text message from a woman in Los Angeles, here from Singapore on business... She worked in finance... Cryptocurrency specifically, I baited the con artist (which is actually just one of hundreds of essential "servants" to these scam companies), obtained a decent chunk of info.. and reported it again...

🤣🤣🤣
 
A lot of people are wary of credit cards for this reason, but protection against this sort of thing is actually one of the main benefits of credit cards. I've had this happen once myself and a number of times on my family's business credit cards. Never once had an issue getting the charges reversed.

HorseloverFat said:
Also.. watch out for "wrong number" text messages...

You try to be helpful... This is a mistake.
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these have skyrocketed for me in recent months. I get probably one or two "hi" messages from random numbers per week.
 
pandacular said:
A lot of people are wary of credit cards for this reason, but protection against this sort of thing is actually one of the main benefits of credit cards. I've had this happen once myself and a number of times on my family's business credit cards. Never once had an issue getting the charges reversed.


these have skyrocketed for me in recent months. I get probably one or two "hi" messages from random numbers per week.
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I always get new friends on Facebook notices in my email but have never had a FB account lol. It's 350 uses of my email in one day + a hacked cc that prompted this thread. Just curious if any other BN folks had similar.
 
I've definitely heard of this technique. It's similar to what we call in software "security by obscurity"... like hiding your secret files in a huge directory structure.
 
Sounds like a spam bomb. I got hit with 15,000 emails to cover a hack of one of my investment accounts (etrade). They placed a decent sized sell trade for a single stock. Unfortunately for the criminals I'm an investment advisor so I was on the market the second it opened (coincidently, NOW, as I'm hitting post), and got it taken care of.

Lesson - use 2 factor Auth on finances!
 
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Sounds like a spam bomb. I got hit with 15,000 emails to cover a hack of one of my investment accounts (etrade). They placed a decent sized sell trade for a single stock. Unfortunately for the criminals I'm an investment advisor so I was on the market the second it opened (coincidently, NOW, as I'm hitting post), and got it taken care of.

Lesson - use 2 factor Auth on finances!
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Good point, I do use 2 factor for all my finances, and work/employment related.
Marked them as Spam, and today I emptied 432 Spam mails from the last 2 weeks,
most from Aug 9th. It has settled down to a very low normal tone now.
Since I marked these as Spam from my Inbox, I will have to monitor my Spam
folder for legitimate Confirmations now, re-teaching my Spam filtre on those.
Odd how it coincided with the 8th Ntl tickets I purchased though. Coincidence I'm hoping.
 
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