said by angry :Oh my! I did a search of some bogus charges that were on my AMEX and this site popped up! Thank goodness I'm not alone. I apologize in advance if this is not the correct place to post this or if you all have discussed this information previously.
The two companies that charged my AMEX have already been posted by others:
1) ROMAN I PIGLITSIN Telecom Service 2/20/08, $11.87
ROMAN I PIGLITSIN DBA
4351 Marysville Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95838
Cellular Telephones
R And P Web Designer
2) SOLOMKA DESIGN, Computer network 2/08/08 $11.95
SOLOMKA Design
4282 Pinell St Ste 101
Sacramento, CA 95838
Internet Downloads
I immediately flagged it online, but didn't submit it as a fradulent charge. At the time I thought it MIGHT have been something connected to my MONTHLY charge from EXPERIAN that is SUPPOSED to cover credit report monitoring and protection. Imagine that!
The so-called monintoring service by Experian is $11.95 a month...eerily close to the amounts charged by the 'fake companies'. I immediately called Experian and cancelled and I told the account rep that I was cancelling because I had two charges that were unfamilar and I felt they were connected. I just had a really bad feeling. on my AMEX statement, the same exact language and location (california)used to describe the 'legit' Experian charges is also used with the fake charges. Of course the Experian rep said the standard line of 'we would never knowingly pass your information along to third parties, blah, blah, blah'.
AMEX has sinced given me a credit and sent letters stating they are investigating. I'm hoping they don't 'recharge' my account. But they gave me an immediate credit, no questions asked. I wonder if it's because this has happened to so many other card holders recently??
I have scanned this site for about 10 minutes and I'm thankful I found all of this information. Interesting and VERY scary stuff! Also, I noticed where there were some posts that stated this may have started with Equifax. Do we know if Experian has also experienced (pardon the pun
) the same kind of leaks? Can anyone tell me HOW I became a victim? Are there some sites I may have visited or do we think it truly is related to Experian? Is there a way of finding out?
I am glad (for lack of a better term) that when I signed up for this service through Experian I used my credit card and not my bank card. I truly meant to cancel the service months ago and kept forgetting. I never meant for it to be an on-going charge. I only wanted the service that one time, but I was constantly getting updates of who was viewing my credit, etc, so I felt it may have been worth it. Never again will I let this kind of stuff fall by the wayside!
Thanks for any updates you can provide.
Angry in Birmingham, Alabama
Everyone assumes the culprit is whatever company they last used the card with, or newly used it with or whatever. And like I said on another site, there are MILLIONS of people who use Equifax (and Experian) for credit monitoring, so odds are that a lot of those people will also be among those of us finding these bogus charges. Simple mathematics. But there are people INSISTING that it MUST be Equifax--and they refuse to believe otherwise--because others have also recently used Equifax. SOLVED! But for every defrauded person who is an Equifax customer, there are three who aren't (like me).
