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Re: Ebook websites, fraud charges, Devbill/DigitalAge/Pluto said by Doctor Olds:said by rusty1989:My mom just got a charge for $9.40 from an an entity called "HBS 888-215-5608 CA". She uses this card for the Equifax credit monitoring monthly charge. It has only been used 3 or 4 other times in its entire 6 year history. I found a thread I linked to below with many people complaining about a charge to the same entity for the same amount going back to November 2007. Many of them are also Equifax customers. Doesn't anyone care enough to do anything about this? I don't see how Equifax and others cannot be aware of this by now. » 800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-218-5608 Equifax is not a Credit Card Issuer. Why would they be aware of your or your mother's fraud charges, they don't see your Credit Card Statements. Only your Credit Card company and the Payment Processors are to blame.... Doctor Olds and MGD, I was looking at the link rusty1989 provided, and I think there is something very interesting there.
On page 2, there is this entry:
»800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-888-218-5608/2
quote:
"Latest info is that Certegy is most likely responsible. I read an article at the Saint Petersburg Times yesterday about this situation. In addition, I called a close friend of mine who works at Certegy and here is what happened. An employee/employees at Certegy wanted extra money and knowingly and/or illegally sold our credit card info to the crooks. Certegy processes credit cards for most banks,credit unions,etc. They used to be owned 100%(until a few years ago) by Equifax. Five of of the six top executives at Certegy were former execs at Equifax. Certegy has a very troubling history of major violations with regulators, class action attorneys, consumers, etc... Currently, they have nearly 600 complaints on file at the Better Business Bureau....When my bank and I called management at Certegy over this issue, we were stonewalled by management at Certegy... They showed bad faith!!! Certegy is worried about criminal actions because this may go all the way to the top. In addition, they act as if they are trying to shield themselves by stonewalling us because they fear civil liability (class actions,etc).... My bank called because they contract with Certegy to process our banks credit card transactions.......Kerry Rothschild"
I then went and googled for the news article mentioned, and found it:
»www.sptimes.com/2007/11/15/North···a_.shtml
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Over a five-year period, the 54-year-old Largo man methodically stole confidential records on more than 8.4-million U.S. consumers, including 460,000 Floridians, authorities charged. Most of the records included credit card, debit card and/or bank account numbers. For his clandestine efforts, Sullivan was paid a total of $580,000.
This next part I found astonishing and hard to believe:
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In court papers and public statements, the company said the stolen records apparently were used solely to create mailing lists for marketers. There was no indication that they were used for identity theft or other fraud.
I could be way off base thinking there is some link here, and feel free to say so... Just thought it was worth posting just the same. | |
| said by RegMemberFlyBy :This next part I found astonishing and hard to believe: quote:
In court papers and public statements, the company said the stolen records apparently were used solely to create mailing lists for marketers. There was no indication that they were used for identity theft or other fraud.
I don't want this get off base from the original topic of EBOOKS, but I have some info to add. If there is something to an Equifax connection, maybe this could be moved to a different thread.
As for the quote above, it seems there was more than "mailing lists" that was breached.
According to this March 12, 2008 article:
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»www.tampabay.com/news/business/a···4678.ece
Certegy Check Services notified millions of Americans last fall that a rogue employee had stolen and sold their personal financial information. Now the St. Petersburg company is preparing to unleash some more bad news: a proposed legal settlement that some critics say will do little to fight identity theft.
The preliminary deal between Certegy and class-action attorneys, currently under review by U.S. District Court Judge Steven D. Merryday in Tampa, would offer partial relief to some of the 8.4-million Americans — including 460,000 Floridians — whose data were methodically stolen over a five-year period. Among the benefits:
• Credit monitoring...
• Bank account monitoring....
• Identity-theft reimbursement....
• Heightened security....
In this article about Certegy relocating, it states:
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»tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampaba···ry6.html
Certegy (NYSE: CEY) was founded in 2001 as a spinoff of Equifax, a provider of consumer and commercial credit information.
Hmmmm.... | | |
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