OT: on-line buying/credit card fraud

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

Hey everyone,

Just a note, this month our credit card had over $1200 in charges that we 
didn't make. The three "chargees" were ifriends.com, pay2click.com, and 
the .ws domain people. Update! I just called, and 3 new charges (right 
before I cancelled the card) came up for delta3.com. Interesting, as 
delta3 and pay2click are both loading as UK companies with identical 
websites (and have pop-ups for eachother). So, someone must be selling 
credit card numbers to people in the UK?

So, just a friendly reminder (as I spent last night ordering on-line xmas 
gifts). Watch your statements. Using only one card for on-line purchases 
is best. It may even be a good idea to check your balances weekly 
(there's a spiffy automated 800# on the back of your card(s). There were 
15 duplicate charges on my bill!

And of course, watch for the glowing locks, and doing transactions over 
secure connections. Tighten down your browsers (it's okay to run 
javascript, but do yourself a favor and configure your browser to ask 
first). If you can, check out netcraft or something and see what the site 
you're going to buy from's server runs. (Old IIS? go somewhere else!)

Happy holiday shopping. For this being the first problem in the 8 years 
I've had the card (Citibank Visa), and in the 6 years I've used it to 
order on-line, I'm still pretty happy. Though in awe at what some stupid 
people will go through to get stuff on-line!


-- Kara Pritchard                          



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