Credit Card Used by ?

[Never mind]

Used my new card 4 times with 3 accounts, one with Microsoft with a 365 download to my X1 and one game and the other with a Steam account with 2 games and a notebook purchase from Lenovo. Card company stopped the $1,900 purchase luckily. Wow, just wow that it only took three weeks with the card and these 3 sites to get the credit card number stolen by someone.

Anyone else get their credit card number used by either Lenovo, Microsoft or Steam lately ?

 

[SDColorado]

No, but I did have someone use my "credit card" (I still have it physically) to buy $100 worth of gas and a large purchase at a Victoria's Secret at some mall in CA while I was home in CO. I had no problem getting the funds back, but it isn't the first time this has happened. Train tickets in Germany and a hotel stay in Banff were a couple of previous ones.

Have you used that card to purchase fuel recently? I was told that is by far the most common point of cards being scanned/duplicated.

 

[Thysanoptera]

No, but it is not clear which transactions were made by you and which ones unauthorized. I had my cards numbers stolen multiple times, but the thiefs kind of never were making purchases in the same places as I did.

 

[Never mind]

No, but I did have someone use my "credit card" (I still have it physically) to buy $100 worth of gas and a large purchase at a Victoria's Secret at some mall in CA while I was home in CO. I had no problem getting the funds back, but it isn't the first time this has happened. Train tickets in Germany and a hotel stay in Banff were a couple of previous ones.

Have you used that card to purchase fuel recently? I was told that is by far the most common point of cards being scanned/duplicated.

Only use a Shell Credit card, so no, not that. It was interesting that it only happened for the first time with these three companies that I used my one card with, Lenovo, Microsoft and Steam and only after I purchased 1 computer, 3 games. Thought it might have been one of above, only guessing. Credit card company Fraud division will send out the paper work and let me know what the attempt was.

 

[SDColorado]

Only use a Shell Credit card, so no, not that. It was interesting that it only happened for the first time with these three companies that I used my one card with, Lenovo, Microsoft and Steam and only after I purchased 1 computer, 3 games. Thought it might have been one of above, only guessing. Credit card company Fraud division will send out the paper work and let me know what the attempt was.

Interesting. I have never had to go through "Fraud Division" or fill out any paperwork when it has happened to me. Just called them and said "Wasn't me" and they said "OK" and I got my money back

Might want to do a malware scan and if it becomes a big problem, have a look at Blur where you can mask credit card numbers for purchases. Though I don't use that for known legit sites. Usually just ones I don't have 100% confidence in.

 

[kazmac]

I made sure I did not add my credit card # to Microsoft's site. Nada on the others too.

I had to through the traditional hoops for identity theft back in 2003 (Fraud department at Bank, FTC, filing a police report) when there was that monster wave of Master Cards and Visas stolen over the President's Day holiday. I did not clear the cache or history on the work PC where I made a personal purchase and that was how it was nicked.

Glad you got that resolved quickly @Never mind

 

[Thysanoptera]

Credit card company Fraud division will send out the paper work and let me know what the attempt was.

So you don’t even know what kind of charge was attempted, just the amount, not even the merchant name? They should tell you over the phone. One time I got a call about something small, like $30, charged to some company named truelife. I was paying at the time for truecredit (TransUnion) monitoring, it sounded kind of familiar so I asked what this truelife company does. Escort service. I just laughed, thanked them and asked them to call me every time there is a $30 charge for escort service on my card.

 

[Never mind]

They said where, but not the purchase item. Will get full story in a few days. No charges to my account, so nothing to be returned to me. They caught it and denied the bad guy anything.