Just a warning to everyone to be on the lookout for credit card and debit card fraud. I got a phone call yesterday from my visa informing me that my card has been attempted to be used for large purchases in Calgary and in the state of Montana (which BTW Ive never even been to). The reason they called me in the first place is because my visa is maxed out and they were wondering why I was trying to make such large purchases with a maxed out credit card. They thought it seemed suspicious so they called me to verify. One purchase attemted was for $1700 at the sony store in Calgary and the others were for large amounts in Montana. I have to say that this is the first time I've ever been glad that my card was maxed out as all the purchases were declined. Thank god lol.

 

Im pretty sure I know how it happened as I ordered pizza about 3 weeks ago and the delivery driver swiped my card twice saying the first was an accident, so I thought nothing of it. Then I got my statement and I was charged 3 times for my pizza, so they asked me to bring in my statement so I could get a refund. They then kept the statement with my visa number on it.

 

This kind of thing is happening more and more so just be on the lookout at all times and always swipe your own card. I never thought it would happen to me but I was wrong. My card has been cancelled and now im not sure if I even want to get a new one

Well I've survived without 1 since 1999 so it is do-able...

Police handling it ? Nail the driver ? To a steak, in vulture pen ?

well im not sure what happening right now, I am going to phone them and see what they are going to do about it, but for some reason I have a feeling they wont do anything because I have no way of proving it was actually them. I will post an update when I find out more info, these kind of people deserve to be locked up

Wow that's awful. Good thing it was declined. :thumbsup: Well one thing to learn from this never pay for a pizza with a credit card, always use cash.

Sorry to say ice but nothing will happen. One of the biggest things going on right now with my work is debit/credit theft. They will most likely never find the person because this happens so often by the time the see what's up the person is gone. Mostly when this happens they wave the charges on your bill and that's the end of it. But it's nto always people stealing credit/debit cards that are effected. On average my work place receives 2 to 3 chargebacks for people saying that they were never there and never got that etc etc. WE caught a man who bought gift cards one his visa/mastercard and then 2 weeks later tried to say he never got them. This was his own card that he made purchases on and when we proved that we had a signature and that it was not a manually entered purchase which most likely is what they did with your card nothing happened to this guy. If we had not kept a signed receipt we woulod have to pay 500 for someone elses crime. Ain't that fair?

well im not sure what happening right now, I am going to phone them and see what they are going to do about it, but for some reason I have a feeling they wont do anything because I have no way of proving it was actually them. I will post an update when I find out more info, these kind of people deserve to be locked up :thumbsup:

If the owner of the business is informed of the suspected employee. Maybe atleast his employment is over there and a note on his internet work record may hurt his future prospects.

Just call the RCMP they'll find em. Also you said montana was one fo the places? Well my boss got a call as well from his credit card company. It appears someeone wanted a 42 inch plasma in montana...on his card. Small world I guess.

If the owner of the business is informed of the suspected employee. Maybe atleast his employment is over there and a note on his internet work record may hurt his future prospects.

I may just do that

Just call the RCMP they'll find em. Also you said montana was one fo the places? Well my boss got a call as well from his credit card company. It appears someeone wanted a 42 inch plasma in montana...on his card. Small world I guess.

really, wonder if they are at all conected. Chances are they are just passing my number around to friends who think they are going to get some free stuff out of the deal :thumbsup:

You know what's really sad is i had to do a report with the local police and a picture line up as well. Just the small town that i worked in had dozens of these pople on record so i gues not all of them are as crafty as they think

:(That sux well I quess u did get lucky though right.

Sadly, in the United States, the police can not really do much about it if someone in another state steals your identity. The minimum amount of money for the FBI and Secret Service to get involved is $550,000 dollars. Most identity thieves do not steal this much money from an individual due to that reason above.

Sadly, in the United States, the police can not really do much about it if someone in another state steals your identity.

That's more what they'd like you to think than reality. The prosecution venue (here in the US) can be either (A) where the victim resides (or the location to which the bills are sent), ( :thumbsup: where the offender lives (or from where he made phone calls, or internet transactions), or © where the attempted purchases were made/attempted. But the investigation is beyond the resources of most departments. Personally, the biggest roadblock I tend to encounter in these investigations is the lack of cooperation from the bank or credit card companies. It's easier for them to simply write off the loss and credit the true victim than to spend the time working with the investigator to proscute the case. I recently had a rock-solid case in which I even had PHOTOS from an ATM and had positively identified a person. I had to hound the bank for their cooperation. The bad guys know this, and have little to lose. And when we DO get a successful prosecution of a suspect in a different state, our local District Attorney is reluctant to authorize the extradition due to the money involved in bringing them back compared to the amount of the loss.