FOC creditcard fraud?
- Thread starter Ruinerofallfun
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As horrific as this is, it's most likely statistically insignificant to the CC companies.
Shorerider
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This!! Everyone here who’s had their card compromised should be filing a police report and handing the report over to the credit card companies. If they get enough someone will investigate. And don’t call your local police. This all needs to handled by the local police to FOC. With this amount it’s so very unlikely a website issue. Especially over such an amount of time. I could see if a bunch were taken over a week or two, but this seems to spread out over a couple years.
They're (inside job) likely selling the information on the darkweb to the highest bidder.
If the purchase was made before they fixed it, the information has already been compromised. Unless they requested a new card, anyone who made a purchase prior to the “fix date,” is still at risk.
Usually the fraudsters make a couple little test purchases, but the amounts that my card flagged were several hundred/thousand, but my card picked it up immediately and shut them down and notified me.
In my instance, "they" tested the validity of the card with a $3.73 fastener purchase at a Home Depot in Toronto. Then, within hours, 3 different invoices for a beauty parlour in the Montreal area, all of them being in the $800 area. 2 of them were identical, say $786.74 each and the other was slightly more $823.10.
The timing of the purchases was such that someone could not have tested the card in Toronto and driven with 3 Ho's to Montreal for a party weekend. The purchases where literally a couple of hours apart.
I believe someone at the store is skimming card info then just selling it on the darkweb. I'm told that the darkweb hold auction type set ups...not to dissimilar to our EE.
So, someone at the store has cards for sale and they find a buyer "I'll take it!"...but before $ is exchanged (or bitcoin, Russian brides, etc.,) if it is proven to be a viable card the price goes up, or perhaps it's contingent on the deal that it's proven to work? Then, in my case, the "I'll take it!" was some pimp in Montreal who had some hard working girls with really nasty feet that needed some work done...one of them moreso than the other two!?
Same. These guys are a joke
Yeah with mine it was a test for phone cards in ON for around $75, then 2 x $5000 Delta Airlines flights out of Vancouver.
I think it's because the credit card companies don't want to admit that the scale of the problem is actually far larger. I had my credit card details stolen after purchasing at a different retailer; that card was part of a shared account with two other cards, both of which had literally never seen the light of day before and were held by family members. However, by compromising my card they were somehow able to compromise those two other cards and make purchases using them, in spite of the fact that those cards had never been used in a transaction before.
My guess is that their algorithms have been cracked to some degree, but fully upgrading the system (and being forced to admit it) would be costlier than just paying or sticking the merchant with the charge.
Our of curiosity, I just called them. They are moving not that far away (less than a minute drive away), but they don't know when they will reopen.
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