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Re: My Credit Card account hacked???

reply to Octavean
You know what sucks, I made a rather large purchase a few days ago, my card won't be billed until the item is shipped, now when they go to ship item, the pre-approval will be rejected. Ah well...
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

Maybe you can just call them and give them your new billing info. I think that happened to me once with an order that was going to take a while. Or maybe you can do it online,...

As long as you have time to do it before the request goes in,...

I did call them to let them know, I just worry that someone's not going to get the "memo" and simply delete order. It's just a $600 bike, so not a big deal. Funny, when I called them, they were surprised item hadn't been sent out yet (it was suppose to arrive yesterday but never did).
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reply to J E F F
Old Navy? Really?

reply to J E F F
Check with your card provider
I use my bank's branded Visa cards and they have a no cost set of use alert options buried in their account settings

I have my cc accounts set to send me a text when a card not present sale is made, a gasoline purchase and any transaction over $150

A bonus for me as a business owner, I always know when items I ordered finally ships because the places I do business with don't hit card until it ships

Found out about it while I was going thru hoops with the fraud department when my card got compromised
Asked how I can make it harder for the idiots to get me and they pointed me to the alerts...

I have alerts set to anything over $200 and anything international.

Anyway, everyone has been good about it, but I really hate that someone somehow got that info!
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

reply to J E F F
My identity was stolen years ago, and they still open accounts with merchants and online banks. They even filed a federal tax return last year. Once they have your information they'll sell it and pass it around.

I suggest putting a fraud alert on your credit reports. It's free if you're a victim of ID theft. You might go the distance, like I have, and put a freeze on your records. It can be a pain when you're applying for new credit but worth it to have the control.

reply to Styvas
I highly doubt it was an Apple Store employee, most likely the thief had touched your card in the past 3-6 weeks or so and done small purchases(>$5) in the time period. My dad during the holiday season(Nov--a week before black friday) had a similar issue, someone tried a few small purchases in Florida then went nuts on shopping... oddly CrapOne froze the card before it hit $100, then again out-of-state transactions are likely flagged quicker than iTunes/online purchases.

A security tip I was given(after the PSN hack), when you shop locally have a certain "card or two" so you're able to monitor it easily. Use a dedicated card for online-only. If one card is de-activated you'll still be able to handle day to day life.
...my CC was stolen/used the week when PSN went down, worst part of it was I kept hitting the weekly limit on my debt card until my replacement card arrived

The only person to have physically touched my card was an Apple employee who took it behind the Genius Bar. No other purchases. He said the chip reader was down, so he swiped my card, and asked for my email address, which is also my AppleID. The AppleID would have my full address, which you need to create an AppleID and be able to use a credit card. Though I cannot prove it. To me the key is having someone have my postal code, as well as the security code on the back of card.
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

reply to Octavean
Woot! Got the money back!

How do you find the Vudu.com service? What devices do you stream it to?

Vudu service is okay. It's streamed through an LG Smart TV Upgrader (LG ST600 i believe).

For set-up, router must use USA DNS, or VPN. That gets you all the apps for the LG, otherwise, you're stuck with Netflix and YouTube only, and a couple others.

For vudu, use the first three numbers of your postal code, and add two digits at the end (00, 01, 02). So postal code L3R 2G1 become zip code 32102, Astor, Florida. You need to find a valid zip code for it to work.

Alternatively, you can get a 7/11 prepaid MasterCard and register it to a Oregon zip code. Oregon, because no tax, no blackouts. (I used it for MLB last year)
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I guess I'm more curious how you find it compared to other services like Netflix or HuluPlus. Have you tried the others enough to draw a comparison?

Oh, I see. I assumed it was subscription based like Netflix.

reply to J E F F
I woke up this morning, checked into my bank account, and found an $800.00 charge on my card from Apple.....I called the bank, and they informed me to call Apple, which I did. Apple told me that the charge was cancelled by them, because for some reason they knew the purchase was fraudulent ! Now I just read on the Verge web site that Apple accounts and passwords were hacked yesterday.....not sure if any of it is relevant to what happened to me or not, or to the original poster....I went into my iTunes account and took my credit card info out just in case.

Very interesting. Not sure if it is or could be related, but very odd. But it only takes a couple bad fruit in a bunch of good employee's to royally mess things up. But my issue was for sure an issue on the Apple side. Also teaches me that regardless where I go, even if it is a most trusted source, never hand them your credit card, or at least never let it get out of your site.

My credit card company was telling me that the #1 source of fraud are fellow employee's. So if you leave your wallet around for a second, it's not uncommon for them to get the info from your card, and they can figure out your address, and that's all they need for online virtual purchases. (like movies, MLB, music, expensive software)
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