Last year I got hacked 3 times on my card (noy the Q card).
Each time it happened, they apologized and sent out a new cards.
It started with Walmart, someone had charged 5000.00 dollars worth of items to an address in AZ. I told her I didn't and she even gave me the address and how it was being sent. Well she called FED-X right while she was on the phone with me and told them do not deliver the items.
She gave me the address and I googled it, come to find out it was a vacant house. Lucky for me the realtor was listed/ So I called his office and spoke with him. He was furious, not at me, but for what was going on. He knew some police out there and he contacted them, they then phoned Fed-X and asked when that merchandise was to be arriving. Well, the cops were waiting around the corner from this vacant house and Fed-X pretended to bring boxes to the door, within minutes, the people pulled up in a van and thats when the cops nailed them.
They phone me and told me they had them in custody and for me to have my credit card company contact their department.
The 2nd and 3rd time, it was from a store in Ca. called Pathmart? I can't remember for sure, but someone out there had a great time buying clothes but it appears had a hard time deciding if they were going to keep the items as they were returned and purchased again, 8 different times !
I was furious, so I called that store and asked just what they asked for when someone was charging... They had no answer for me.... I mean this person was going in this store without even having a credit cared in hand, yet the store ran the charge through.
This time I called the cops myself and let them know what was going on..
Again, arrests were made.
After that, I cut up all my credit cards except one.
I have since learned that if you purchase on line, always check out as a GUEST and make sure you uncheck the box where it says "keep on file for easier checkouts"...
Knock on wood, I have had no problem since I do that...
Oh btw,, that Pathmart/ or whatever it was called,, that bill was 6 grand and my credit card company insisted I was responsible.. Umm.... they changed their mind when my attorney contacted them...
Seems funny, I didn't have a problem with any of my other cards, just the gold one!
Makes me wonder, might someone in that company have been having wandering eyes?
Sorry it happened to you but in this world today, you can't trust anyone...
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