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Credit Card Fraud Alert

AugieTN

AugieTN

Retired IBEW
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Last week I drove down to Tennessee. I had to stop driving before Tennessee due to severe weather, and I got a hotel room. I have one credit card that I use for hotel rooms. Today I went to pay that credit card online and I also noted a $3.79 charge from Amazon Prime 888-802-3080. I don't have Amazon Prime. I googled that phone number and got this:

"....Some of them have 888-802-3080 listed in the transaction.. This is a large scale international fraud. When you call that number they pretend its Amazon and even send you a follow up email using Amazon template. According to Amazon Support this is not an Amazon number and they don't have any records of these transactions.May 20, 2023..."

I called the bank and reported the fraud. Since this has been going on for over a year I'm surprised the bank doesn't have a stop in place for the phone number, 888-802-3080 on a transaction.
 
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I just realized something crazy about the Amazon Prime charge. I get a push notification on all transactions on that credit card. I just double checked my push notifications and I never got a notification on the Amazon Prime charge, but I got a notification on the Hotel charge. I can't check to see if there was a minimum limit right now since the account is closed.

I have two other credit cards with push notification checked and there is no minimum limit. It's just on or off.

I’m convinced the Amazon Prime charge piggy backed on the hotel charge. Like a virus on the hotel computer, so a push transaction alert was not sent.
 
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They may well have a skimmer attached that they don’t know about that is piggybacked to their wireless. They do the little transaction and if it works then they sell the credentials on the dark web. If you catch it soon enough, the dark web buyer loses out.

There was a gas station I used to go to, it was an independent that sold 76 gas and always had good prices. I got skimmed there once and figured it was a one-off since I only went to that station when I was in the area. My next visit was okay, but about six months later I got gas there and got skimmed again. I haven’t been back since.
 
PitCarver said:
After my wife got scammed by an email alert, allegedly from our bank, she gets a notification on any and all transactions on our card.
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My mother keeps track on everything with my cards.. I think I have like eight more before they cut off the social secuirty cards though.
 
Back in the early 2000's there was a family consisting of a mom, son and daughter that were running an identity theft/credit card fraud scam in las vegas.
The mom/daughter would steal a purse (sometimes leaving a purse behind so when security/surveillance investigated it would appear a guest accidentally grabbed the wrong purse.,) once the purse was acquired. The mom/daughter would take it to the son who would be waiting in a van. He had a mini work shop set up, he would carefully remove the victims picture from the ID/drivers license and then replace it with a picture of his mom or sister.
The mom/sister would go to the cage and then get a cash advance on the credit card for $50-$200 . Sometimes they would hit two or three casinos. They also did during the day time when the casinos were busy and the cashiers were trying to handle as many transactions as possible and weren't really paying attention.
So one day this family arrived at a particular casino , they located a victim and thirty minutes later the mom is the main casino cage trying to get a $200 cash advance on a credit card.
This is where the scam came to an end. It would turn out that the cashier was kind of familiar with the address on the ID and the person who lived there. The address on the ID was that of the cashiers parents neighbor in their hometown. The cashier ran a check and found their neighbor was playing some slot machine.
The cashier delayed the transaction claiming some computer error. Security and surveillance were advised of the situation. Surveillance went back and started reviewing the neighbor and soon discovered that the daughter had stolen the purse, taken it to the brother and then the mom had gone to the cage. If I remember right, there had been two other incidents at this casino involving this family.
Security contacted the Las Vegas police department explained the situation and units were dispatched. All members of the family were arrested. Inside of the van they found dozens and dozens of purses and wallets.
 
joe71 said:
Back in the early 2000's there was a family consisting of a mom, son and daughter that were running an identity theft/credit card fraud scam in las vegas.
The mom/daughter would steal a purse (sometimes leaving a purse behind so when security/surveillance investigated it would appear a guest accidentally grabbed the wrong purse.,) once the purse was acquired. The mom/daughter would take it to the son who would be waiting in a van. He had a mini work shop set up, he would carefully remove the victims picture from the ID/drivers license and then replace it with a picture of his mom or sister.
The mom/sister would go to the cage and then get a cash advance on the credit card for $50-$200 . Sometimes they would hit two or three casinos. They also did during the day time when the casinos were busy and the cashiers were trying to handle as many transactions as possible and weren't really paying attention.
So one day this family arrived at a particular casino , they located a victim and thirty minutes later the mom is the main casino cage trying to get a $200 cash advance on a credit card.
This is where the scam came to an end. It would turn out that the cashier was kind of familiar with the address on the ID and the person who lived there. The address on the ID was that of the cashiers parents neighbor in their hometown. The cashier ran a check and found their neighbor was playing some slot machine.
The cashier delayed the transaction claiming some computer error. Security and surveillance were advised of the situation. Surveillance went back and started reviewing the neighbor and soon discovered that the daughter had stolen the purse, taken it to the brother and then the mom had gone to the cage. If I remember right, there had been two other incidents at this casino involving this family.
Security contacted the Las Vegas police department explained the situation and units were dispatched. All members of the family were arrested. Inside of the van they found dozens and dozens of purses and wallets.
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The old adage, "Crime doesn't pay" is true. Get a real job and you'll make far more money, with a clear conscience, if you work wisely.
 
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