Re: OT: on-line buying/credit card fraud

[Mark <mark@bish.net>]

You email client (Pine) just sent me your CC info.  MMUUHHAAAA



On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Kara Pritchard wrote:

> 
> 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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