Credit Card Scam

[GloBug]

well i guess over the weekend someone got a hold of my bank atm/credit card number and spent some money. well lots of money. my wife noticed it today and called the bank to report the theft. well the funny thing is as she is on the phone with the bank the bank notices someone trying to do another purchase. they cant track who it is yet but they say they will get to the bottom of it. well from what i know they have bought a bunch of dvd;s cd's and bunch of other crap thet they can sell. man this really sucks. its gonna put me in a bind as i had to cancel my card and get issued a new one that wont arrive for 3-7 business days. i am not sure how they got it. i dont use it for online purchases and never used for poker money. makes me wonder if i used it at a store or restaurant or somewhere and they got the number that with my cvv number. thats the only thing i can think of. has anyone gone thru this before and hw long did it take to recoup your money? funny thing is all the charges were make to a bunch of UK companies and 1 on lori's hometown of marysville. well the marysville company has returned the money from that transaction but the UK comepanies might be harder. eejit u making charges to my card? lol

this is gonna be a tough week with no money. dam now i got to use my credit cards for groceries and all the other weekly things i spend on.

[BnLM5]

Maryland replaced webct with blackboard back in 07. BB is definitely better, although I still preferred course pages.

Do you really think so. I am getting more used to it but it is still having quite a few technical issues. But things like this are what really irritate me the most...
Mind you I have three online classes that use Bb. One of those classes I was required to upgrade and update my computer mainly my Browser. So I use Mozilla Fire Fox and I upgrade and as soon as it was done I could not get back into Bb as Bb does not support the new browser. How stupid is that so far? I mean these people work together and are my professors. Scarry! Then I think ok, don't freak out just restore your computer to an earlier date, done, wrong. Firefox is gone now as with the upgrade it somehow deleted the older program file. I am not computer illiterate however I can't still find the older version any where on my computer at any date. In the mean time my security program now needs to reinstall a bunch of updates and will not work properly because my connection totally sucks. Truthfully patients could not have waited this one out. Any way I have it handled now. I use Firefox for everything except Bb and for them I use Netscape. That's my story. Don't know exactly why I said all of that but I thank you greatly for reading it. And I am so procrastinating sleep and study. yuck!

[TerpZone]

Do you really think so. I am getting more used to it but it is still having quite a few technical issues. But things like this are what really irritate me the most...
Mind you I have three online classes that use Bb. One of those classes I was required to upgrade and update my computer mainly my Browser. So I use Mozilla Fire Fox and I upgrade and as soon as it was done I could not get back into Bb as Bb does not support the new browser. How stupid is that so far? I mean these people work together and are my professors. Scarry! Then I think ok, don't freak out just restore your computer to an earlier date, done, wrong. Firefox is gone now as with the upgrade it somehow deleted the older program file. I am not computer illiterate however I can't still find the older version any where on my computer at any date. In the mean time my security program now needs to reinstall a bunch of updates and will not work properly because my connection totally sucks. Truthfully patients could not have waited this one out. Any way I have it handled now. I use Firefox for everything except Bb and for them I use Netscape. That's my story. Don't know exactly why I said all of that but I thank you greatly for reading it. And I am so procrastinating sleep and study. yuck!

I have never had compatibility problems with blackboard and firefox. Odd that you are.

I've also never taken online courses though, so I don't know much about blackboard and online classes.

[KaciBlakely]

Wow globug! I'm sorry I didn't see this post earlier. It's sad that these kinds of things happen but you'll get your money back so rest assured.

When my information got stolen it was because I used a third party atm at a hospital I was visiting because my cousin was having a little baby.

Anyways long story short I called and got everything stopped. I had purchases being made in Las Vegas and California and was not there, obviously. Anyways it stopped and I got all the money back.

But the moral is never use third party atm machines either.

It had my banks name on it too. But it was still third party so be careful with those too.

[kingsnthahole]

do yourself a favor Glo, if it's an ATM-debit/credit card...talk to your bank and open up another checking/savings account that isn't linked to your card. Store a majority of your cash in the one that isn't linked to that card, and transfer money when you know your going to spend it in advance. This also cuts back on my spending. I do about 90 percent of my banking online and have never had a problem. I refuse to insert my card numbers online unless it's through a well known secure site.

[GloBug]

do yourself a favor Glo, if it's an ATM-debit/credit card...talk to your bank and open up another checking/savings account that isn't linked to your card. Store a majority of your cash in the one that isn't linked to that card, and transfer money when you know your going to spend it in advance. This also cuts back on my spending. I do about 90 percent of my banking online and have never had a problem. I refuse to insert my card numbers online unless it's through a well known secure site.

yeah i agree with that but i usually make online purchese with prepaid cards and this was th eone time. what are the odds of that .lol

[thenutzaa1]

well i had to get a new debt card as well.

a store in hong kong with a transaction id of strawberry lcd (and bunch of numbers) hacked into my account!

funny thing was that they would debt my account first and then credit my account for just a tad more maybe .10... after 3 months i found out b/c i was doing my balance sheet and after 3 months i was negative 6 dollars and figured everything out! oh man it took 4 hours to talk to my bank about this b/c they could not figure it out!

hackers are smart b/c i am sure a lot of people dont see these kind of things!!!