[Leica] Credit Card Fraud

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

On 4/6/2010 5:16 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Just a heads-up.  I received a call this morning from the card service 
> agency that processes my Visa charges, asking me to review some recent 
> charges to establish their legitimacy.  They had noted a charge that 
> raised a flag, but I don't know how they detected it.
>
> It turns out that, over the weekend, someone got my card number and made a 
> fraudulent charge to the account, for the amount of $385.01.  I suspect it 
> resulted from my use of the card with internet merchants, though I also 
> use it around town.
>
> I have canceled the card and initiated actions to remove the charge from 
> my account.  This is my first encounter with this type of thing, though I 
> knew that it is not too uncommon.
>
> Keep an eye on those accounts!
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
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Hi Jim,You are correct - reviewing your CC statements and bank statement 
is essential (a huge number of people with checking accounts never 
reconcile or even  review the statements).  Your issue may have been 
through a skimmer on an ATM or gas pump.  It reads your CC information 
and can capture your security code or PIN entry with a pinhole camera.  
Usually they stick out from the body of the pump more than a normal card 
reader, but now I see that some fraudsters are obtaining master keys for 
a brand of pumps and wiring the skimmer internally.

Ken Carney
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma