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So yesterday I get a call from a number I don’t know. I wasn’t going to answer but I did. It was from a well known sporting company asking me to verify an order. They knew my name, obviously phone number and told me the last 4 digits of my credit card. I told them I placed no order and they told me I should call my credit card company to close my account as fraud has occurred and they would cancel the order. It was for one item totaling $477. I gave no other information nor did they.
I immediately called my credit card company and they had a pending charge from this company. My card was cancelled. No other fraudulent charges were on my card. I checked all my other accounts and all was good, plus I put alerts on everything.
I decided to call back the sporting company. I did not use the number that called me with, did my research to make sure I had a legit number. I found out that the shipping address was different, which made sense. It was in my state but a different town. They would not tell me any more. They keep the information and give it out if they have a court order. I asked the reason. I was told some mad person can go to that address and have a confrontation with someone at that address and more often then not fraud has been committed against that person too and they have nothing to do with what happened to me.
The representative told me very often if you order from a third party on Amazon, where they are the shipper, that is where the problem can be. Seems I did just a little bit prior to this fraud transaction occurring.
Now the weird thing, this morning I get another call from the sporting company. Someone online put the same exact order in again, with my cancelled credit card, except this time shipping to my address. I was already flagged so they called to let me know. Why a second time and shipping to me?
Almost every year when I go to Florida I come back and my card has been compromised. Usually it is a few dollar transaction and the credit card company informs me there is fraud and they have to cancel my card. This was very different except that I just came home from Florida too.
I immediately called my credit card company and they had a pending charge from this company. My card was cancelled. No other fraudulent charges were on my card. I checked all my other accounts and all was good, plus I put alerts on everything.
I decided to call back the sporting company. I did not use the number that called me with, did my research to make sure I had a legit number. I found out that the shipping address was different, which made sense. It was in my state but a different town. They would not tell me any more. They keep the information and give it out if they have a court order. I asked the reason. I was told some mad person can go to that address and have a confrontation with someone at that address and more often then not fraud has been committed against that person too and they have nothing to do with what happened to me.
The representative told me very often if you order from a third party on Amazon, where they are the shipper, that is where the problem can be. Seems I did just a little bit prior to this fraud transaction occurring.
Now the weird thing, this morning I get another call from the sporting company. Someone online put the same exact order in again, with my cancelled credit card, except this time shipping to my address. I was already flagged so they called to let me know. Why a second time and shipping to me?
Almost every year when I go to Florida I come back and my card has been compromised. Usually it is a few dollar transaction and the credit card company informs me there is fraud and they have to cancel my card. This was very different except that I just came home from Florida too.