[Leica] Credit Card Fraud

[gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com (Greg Lorenzo)]

Biggest risk is restaurants that have their waiters take your card to run it 
through the card reader in a separate room. They have both your credit card 
and the security number on the back of your card. Sometimes for several 
minutes.

 

Greg Lorenzo

Calgary, Canada
 
> From: jhnichols at lighttube.net
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 22:27:49 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Credit Card Fraud
> 
> Thanks for the input, Jayanand. I thought I was being careful, as well.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Credit Card Fraud
> 
> 
> > Jim,
> > I get confirmatory phone calls/sms from all my card providers within 1-2
> > minutes of the actual usage, if it is over a certain amount, so that I 
> > can
> > promptly know if a fraud has occurred. If I use a credit card in
> > Thailand/Malaysia/Indonesia (the credit card fraud capitals of the 
> > world),
> > however trustworthy the shop/hotel, my card gets canceled and a new one
> > issued, with a different number.
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> > 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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