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Re: I rec'd charge from Digital Age for $24.99 on I too logged on to WellsFargo online this morning and saw a Digital Age charge of 24.99. Quickly called WellsFargo (at the same time Googled and found this link.)
They will "Investigate" and if they can retrieve the money will credit my account. I said, this is a fraud, I doubt if you will retrieve the money.
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kelle
join:2005-09-28
Santa Monica, CA | reply to MGD
Re: Digital Age fraud said by MGD:Of all the scam operations that I run across, I rarely if ever see Amex scams like these. Sorry to be the newbie here, but are you endorsing American Express? |
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The reason one doesn't see so many bad charges with Amex has to do with how they operate.
If you want to process Amex and Discovery, you have to deal with Amex and Discover. If you want to process Visa and MC, you deal with a merchant bank. Getting Amex and Discover approval is substantially more difficult than MC and Visa. MC and Visa actually make money on fraudulent charges - not only do they charge them back to the merchant bank, they tack on a significant fee. |
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@wacotx.swbell.ne | reply to Spectral
Re: Trouble Bubble LLC Collegeville? Mark up another $24.99 charge for Digital Age / Cyprus. Found this thread via Google. Have already disputed the charge on my MBNA card, but they haven't removed it. Also had a $1 temporary hold from LFS CREATIONS - ANAHEIM placed on my card. No charge has gone through yet though. Time to call for a new card, I suppose...
Have used this card at NewEgg, Amazon, TigerDirect, Paypal, USPS.com, UPS.com, ebay, and others. |
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 dbeatsonPremium
join:2001-02-22
Clover, SC | reply to Spectral
Everyone needs to fill out that complaint forms online, email the hosting company and work to shut these people down once and for all.
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MGDPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
kudos:9 | reply to carmen99
Re: I rec'd charge from Digital Age for $24.99 on said by carmen99:..They will "Investigate" and if they can retrieve the money will credit my account. I said, this is a fraud, I doubt if you will retrieve the money. Update later. Woohaa, who ever you spoke with is not fully versed in the law yet!!. There is no "IF", you dispute the charge and they investigate. When the fraud is confirmed the charge must be removed regardless of whether they can get the money back or not. In the interim you are not required to pay the disputed amount, and no interest or penalties can accrue. Just remember to preserve your rights, you must follow up and notify them in writing.
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L2006
join:2001-12-03
Stratford, ON | reply to Spectral
Re: Trouble Bubble LLC Collegeville? Do they (VISA)let ANYONE just charge anything?? They are supposed to have some fraud detection... you'd think that if they get a few people reporting un-authorized charges from a particular merchant (arn't all visa merchants issued a VISA Merchant ID??) then shouldn't they flag that merchant account, and maybe suspend it, or at least investigate it?
I'm not a merchant, so i may not understand completely how it works. |
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nascar24
join:2000-12-20
Sterling Heights, MI
1 edit | All I can say is that it really does appear no one cares about this kind of thing, As the credit card companies dont care either as they really didnt want to issue me a new card because of this $9.95 charge. Even though next charge could be huge and even after I told them it was a fraud charge. They just tell me I wont have to pay for it. I dont get it. But oh well, I did make them give me a new card though. |
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MGDPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
kudos:9 | reply to kelle
Re: Digital Age fraud said by kelle:said by MGD:Of all the scam operations that I run across, I rarely if ever see Amex scams like these. Sorry to be the newbie here, but are you endorsing American Express? That is cool, and no, I was not endorsing American Express in any way. I was merely pointing out that it appears to occur a lot less frequently than Visa/MC. As Kip pointed out, that system is set up differently and more difficult to scam. AMEX is not immune, it does happen, in fact during my research on this one, I ran across a thread in a forum on Fat wallet. Where some online bookstore is reportedly hitting Amex cards with bogus charges: »www.fatwallet.com/forums/message···d=521961
I do however endorse being proactive and posting the frauds, so the word gets out quickly. I also endorse actively tracing and reporting these scams to law enforcement. It is vital that the money transfers are frozen ASAP, as they begin within 2 days of submitting the charge. If the money is nipped in the bud then these type of scams will not become an epidemic.
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Re: Trouble Bubble LLC Collegeville? Visa does not let anyone charge anything. All the charging and approval of charges is handled by the merchant bank. Visa is a conduit for the data.
Yes, when Visa and MC know there is a problem, they investigate and stop it. The problem is that the scammers know the system, and are careful to evade detection for as long as possible so they can get the money out of the merchant bank into their hands. That's why Pluto hired an answering service, for example, to delude callers into thinking that Pluto was legit and that a simple error had occured. In that case, out of two MC accounts, one merchant bank caught it on their own, the other was informed by MC.
No, when you report a bad charge, your credit card company does not go running to VISA/MC waving a red flag. They get thousands of "fraudulent" charges reported each day. For example, you buy an insurance policy and put it on your card, say short term med coverage. After the policy expires you report it as a "fraudulent" charge. My guess is that most "fraudulent" charges are no such thing. |
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Just found a $24.99 charge on my company B of A card. Hope they will remove as fraud from mine also! Can you imagine how many people will NOT catch this... Hope they catch these jerks! |
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I also was hit by Digital Age 88 Cyprus Se for 24.99 and LFS Creations. I called LFS and was told 8,000 card numbers were filtered through their server, all for 1.00. The LFS hit is supposedly reversed.
The only place I have in common for purchases is TigerDirect |
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 MordyComfortably NumbPremium,MVM,ExMod 2004-07
join:2001-12-02
Denver, CO
1 edit | reply to MGD
Re: I rec'd charge from Digital Age for $24.99 on said by MGD:Woohaa, who ever you spoke with is not fully versed in the law yet!!. It depends. If the charge was on a bank issued debit card, there might not be fraud protection. Many banks do offer fraud protection for debit cards, but it is not legal requirement to do so. VISA is offering fraud protection for their labelled debit cards, but I'm not up on the process to dispute a charge on a debit card - it may not be the same process as it is for credit cards, and there may be more hoops to jump through.
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Digital Age $24.99 I was charged $24.99 by Digital Age which posted 9/27 to my Amsouth checkcard. I contacted Amsouth and the charge was made on my husband's card at 6pm on Sunday, 9/26....no phone number or further information was available for the company. I had to go into the bank to fill out a fraud affidavit and will be getting a credit back in the next couple of days. The strange thing in our situation was my husband's card number that was used to by Digital Age was closed a year ago (the card was not lost or stolen, just damaged). A few people have mentioned Amazon as a possible source....so my husband logged onto Amazon to delete our stored account information, and that old credit card number was there. This leads me to believe that Amazon probably was the source that somebody may have hacked. Now, how they were able to charge on a closed account is beyond me, as well as the Financial Specialist at my Amsouth branch. We had several credit card numbers stored on Amazon, so I will be on the phone for a while trying to cancel ALL of my accounts. Also, the bank informed me that there was nothing I could do as far as a police report. She said this was up to Amsouth (which they probably wouldn't pursue a charge of this amount). I have contacted Amazon....maybe they will investigate it if enough people complain! If everyone would post as to whether or not they have used Amazon, that would help narrow the search! I feel that was definitely the source of our fraud. |
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Re: Trouble Bubble LLC Collegeville? Add one more to the list of those being charged $24.99 by Digital Age. My account as well is linked with my PayPal account. In addition to the $24.99, there was another charge for $8.50 from a "NORTHSTAR BUSINESS SER CALGARY CD", and because this alleged check card purchase was made in Canada, there was also an associated $0.26 " FOREIGN CURR CONV FEE"... I've never even been to Canada!!!
I'm just curious, of those of you who've been hit with this, had you made a recent PayPal transaction? I made one on the same day that these fraudulent charges posted to my account. Maybe it is only a coincidence...
I called Wells Fargo and reported the charges as fraud (never even mentioned disputing the charges) and was told that there will be a provisional credit while the charges are investigated. Card has been cancelled as well.
I should add as well that I use this card only about once every 4 months (when I can't use my Amex card) -- mostly it's for getting cash. |
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dbeatsonPremium
join:2001-02-22
Clover, SC
3 edits | reply to Spectral
Reply I got back from Everyone's Internet, sounds like they dont care if their customers are ripping people off, I would encourage everyone to write them and the Texas Attorney General, it's a shame a company like this values money over what is right and what is wrong. In this case this company is as guilty as the poerson commiting the crime, they are supporting and enabling an ongoing criminal enterprise you and are as guilty as the person running this operation
David
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are performing an internal investigation. Once this investigation is completed we will consider this matter closed. It would be in your best interests to contact your issuing bank, and or your local law enforcement agency, your local law enforcement agency should be able to submit proper documentation to obtain information regarding our customer assigned the IP address in question.
Regards,
Chris S
Abuse Team
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Thanks! Googled to this thread and called BankOne. Apparently they got lots of calls already.  |
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I bank with Bank of America and found this charge as well. I have disputed it with them and they are crediting me back the amount. this offence occured to me on 9.19.05. I too had to cancel my cards etc. what a hassle as I am moving this weekend and know have no debit card! what a pain in the ass...I hope the fed's catch them and hang them out to dry.
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tridude, I got charged both as well... Digital Age and Northstar (which funny thing is, in Canadian money it's 9.95 like everyone else is being charged). Both have been disputed and I've been credited back. I'm not cancelling right now because I have a lot of recurring charges from reputable companies, but will keep an eye out. I believe this is one of those change the last numbers of the credit card and charge everyone and their mother randomly.  |
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join:2000-10-21
Morrisville, NC
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Just called my bank and they were very cool about it, canceled my card instantly and re-issued a new one.
I could tell by the tone of the person I was speaking with that they were very familiar with this.
I hope the a**hole that orchestrated this stunt rot in hell ++
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