Fraud
10-05-2009, 10:47 AM
#1
Boone & Crockett
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
Fraud
Regions Bank call last Friday afternoon and said they had picked up some suspicious activity on our debit card. Turned out it was 6 online purchases on Thursday of less than $100 each that we had not made. We are not responsible for the purchases and have no idea how somebody got our number. Just had to cut my card up and wait for another one in the mail. Our computer was down and in the shop with viruses during the purchase time. I wonder how they pick things like that out?
10-05-2009, 01:47 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: De Witt, Iowa
Posts: 1,060
I get a call from the bank 90% of the time when I make purchases online. When I bought my dogs E-Collar, within 1 day, I had a phone call asking me to confirm this purchase. I don't care how they do it, but they can bug me anytime they want to make sure it was me making the purchase.
10-05-2009, 09:05 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,558
Originally Posted by timbercruiser
Our computer was down and in the shop with viruses during the purchase time. I wonder how they pick things like that out?
That right there answers your question. It was a syware type of virus. The kind that tracks every time you log into you bank account and traces you account number and password. Just read an article from the FBI that says hackers are 2 steps a head of them right now and they will never catch up to them. The FBI says in no way should you do online banking.
10-05-2009, 09:17 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Sierra Nevadas., Ca
Posts: 1,050
Originally Posted by timbercruiser
Regions Bank call last Friday afternoon and said they had picked up some suspicious activity on our debit card. Turned out it was 6 online purchases on Thursday of less than $100 each that we had not made. We are not responsible for the purchases and have no idea how somebody got our number. Just had to cut my card up and wait for another one in the mail. Our computer was down and in the shop with viruses during the purchase time. I wonder how they pick things like that out?
First, the same damn thing happened to me. Those purchases were testers. If the small ones got through, then they would have went for bigger ones to clean you out. I got lucky as well.
The fact that you had viruses might have been the reason, but it happened to me with my debit card, and I almost never use it online. It could have been at a resturaunt or gas station, where ever you use it.
Now, think of this. You're computer has all your information stored on it. All of it. While in the shop, they could have easily had access to your bank account numbers, pins, everything. It might not have been the shop, but it has happened. A lot.
10-06-2009, 11:53 AM
#10
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: mountains of wv
Posts: 656
2 steps ahead that is scary.sounds like an easy way to make money though.Do you know where i can sign up for a instructional seminar? just kiddin , i am gonna watch my online purchases . even though i use pre-paid card.
