And I thought I was secure

In a past life...

I was a loan officer at a mortgage lender for five years.

You would be shocked about the horror stories I have heard about the rampant credit card fraud taking place online. I have a firewall, anti-virus, spyware alert, and have options set in all my browsers to check all incoming cookies and request MY approval before approving anything (site redirects, cookies, etc. ad nauseum).

I still won't do anything financial online. If hackers are breaking into databases of major banks that spend millions on security (probably because the bank installed one wireless network that compromised everything), how secure is my home computer? Not very!

I was a victim of fraud as well. My debit account (safe right?) that I had never used online was emptied by fraudulent charges made in a store in Corpus Christi (sp?) Texas. Needless to say I've never been to Texas!

The unbelieveable part was that the bank involved would only tell me security had been compromised on their end, but they WOULDN'T tell me what information was compromised. For all I know the culprits are selling my social security number right now to someone in the Ukraine...
 
Of course, there are those of us who's ID people wouldn't WANT to steal....I don't even have a bank account right now.
My ex on the other hand fell for one of those phone scams for some kind of secure credit card. He was a friggin IDIOT!! No common sense at all. He gave his SS#, Bank Account, Adress, License, EVERYTHING over the phone. Within a couple days later he had a $300 charge taken from his bank account from some unknown company in Canada.
What gets me is even after all this he didn't even bother to report it to any authorities. All he did was close his bank account. So someone is running around with his complete life history and he doesn't even care. I don't get some people.
-Needless to say, not dating that loser any more and am with someone who's actually responsible with thier $$
 
I got the money back this morning sometime. I looked at my account and it was there :thm: What a relief.

I can see that the bogus transactions all came out of Jerusalem. I've also been charged $95 in international money conversions so I'll have to see if the bank will drop those, plus the $25 charge for going in the red.
 
Glad you got your money back, John!

My husband used my debit card # on a site I never used and someone stole it -- this was before everyone wanted CVS #s.

Stupid moron that stole it -- you know what he spent $2000 on? He spent it at Networksolutions.com buying email addressing and domain names! What a MORON! He purchased domain names for 5 years ROFL! Talk about dumb! Needless to say we got all our money back :)

Dunno what the bank did about the guy and I don't know who it was. They wouldn't tell us.

Roan
 
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