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Posted: 12/27/2005 8:49:14 AM EDT
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Good for your credit card company to be vigilant like that. I am sure that the card has been cancelled and a new one issued.
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Posted: 12/27/2005 8:50:27 AM EDT
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I got a denial of credit notice one time in the mail from some store I had never been to.
So I ordered my credit report. Keeping in mind I was in college, unmarried, living in a dorm when we found all this out. I had 5 houses. 2 in MD, 1 in VA, 1 in DC and 1 in GA I had 3 wives. I had 16 credit cards amounting to over $300,000 in debt. 3 years, many many many letters to the credit agencies, and a big fat FRAUD PRONE stamp on my credit report for a few years, and my credit report is now correct. GET YOUR CREDIT REPORT!!!!!! |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 8:52:28 AM EDT
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if they had a valid number, they most likly got it at a gas station. the gas stations do it many ways, a rubbing when not looking, to even video tape screen shots
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Posted: 12/27/2005 8:57:00 AM EDT
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Just did that last month. Clean as a whistle. |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 9:33:44 AM EDT
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I started checking mine every 6 months...never can be too safe anymore.
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Posted: 12/27/2005 9:38:06 AM EDT
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SELL! |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 9:41:27 AM EDT
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I assume they caught the person(s) responsible? |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 9:44:21 AM EDT
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They didn't ask you for the security code on the back of your card did they...
ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=418796 |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 9:45:29 AM EDT
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I have no idea. The credit cards were linked to my name, but I never received bills for them, so they had the wrong address. I never had any debt collectors after me, because nobody had the correct address, except for the credit card I actually used. My name is Michael Johnson. It is very common. Heck, I know of 3 Michael Johnson's on ARFCOM that post here on a regular basis. There are probably more. A lot of it may have just been the credit report people putting the wrong Michael Johnson's information on my report. That would explain the wives thing. |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 9:48:42 AM EDT
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SHOLANDA? That figures. 
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Posted: 12/27/2005 9:53:28 AM EDT
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Could happen a myriad of ways...misdirected or old mail, phone, cardreader used by waiter, dishonest employee, card # could have been bought off the internet...
No one is immune. Damage control is the key. Don't forget to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission here: https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/widtpubl$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU03 The FTC is a clearinghouse for LE officers to follow up on cases of ID theft/fraud. Complaints help officers tie together cases and track abuse. NorCal |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 10:00:12 AM EDT
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Same thing happen to my wife and I a few years back, My credit card company called and asked if we were in New York buying gas,(thats weird) Canceled card and got a new one. Good heads up on the CC company.
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Posted: 12/27/2005 10:01:34 AM EDT
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I have one even more strange.
A local family found out their house had been stolen. The kids lived out of town. The parents passed away and the house was vacant while it was in probate and the kids were deciding to keep or sell. A thief forged the signature on the deed of the property at the county courthouse and sold it to a cohort who in turn sold it to an innocent third party. Once the case was settled, the family returned to the house to prepare it for sale and found unknown persons already living in it. The thief was caught and is in prison. I don't recall what happened to the innocent third party but the house they bought and had a mortgage for was not legally theirs. |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 10:13:08 AM EDT
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Holy crap! 
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Posted: 12/27/2005 10:25:32 AM EDT
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When thieves steal your identity they will have the bills sent to another address (not yours) that way you have no clue.
I see this a lot. Could be from computer transactions, could be bad guys have a friend in a company that has that data. As this was cross country these are most likely causes. Retailers are slack about ID and anyone can use anyone else's card most places. Duplicate cards are being made. Everytime you hand a waiter your card he could be walking away and duping your information. I'm a cop. I pay cash for everything. I've seen too much of this. I put credit fraud alert on my accounts. |
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Posted: 12/27/2005 12:14:43 PM EDT
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Most credit-card fraud now is using numbers that people aquire by being involved in the back-end of CC transaction-processing business, or by hacking into the computers of such businesses. It has less and less to do with where or how you use the card.
Phishing scams are what you often see in your email and hear about, but they're really the smaller part of it. A hacker online can literally steal millions of credit-card numbers in a matter of seconds, under the right/wrong circumstances. ~ |
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