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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
There are of course a bunch of ways to have your number compromised without using it online.
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Hi all, My first experience with credit card fraud was 15 years ago. We had a group of men custom order a $1200 bed from a furniture store where we used to live. They said they were buying the bed for my husband. The store let them order the bed even though the man wasn't with them! The next week, they came back with (insert my husband's name here) and he showed a fake license with his photo and my husband's name. We called the bank 2 weeks later when we got the card statement. They took the charge off immediately even though the store tried to say he had been in the store and bought the bed. (The store owner's son had sold the bed.) We could only file the fake license part, the bank had to file the actual credit fraud. We lived in a major US city at the time. The detective I called wasn't interested - since they have so many cases - until I mentioned we had the card only 10 days before the fraud happened. When I read him the 7 charges, he told me that my husband's info had been stolen at the grocery store or at the convenience store where we bought gas. A fraud ring pays a store employee to steal the credit card info and ID info. Word to the wise - review your card statements every month. BTW, I saw on the news that fraud rings make millions through fake credit card charges under $5. Most people never notice the small amounts. Happy Reading! Joan