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'Tis the Season for Credit Card Fraud

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December 19, 2023, 05:49 AM
OKCGene
'Tis the Season for Credit Card Fraud
quote:
Originally posted by Glynn863:
OP here.

However, whoever did all this had an email address of n.....@usbc.be. Where is that? Overseas I'm sure.


.be is Belguim

LINK TO DIRECTORY

I'm getting around 10 everyday from Sweden, .se

Bastages!
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December 19, 2023, 08:31 AM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
Originally posted by HRK:
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If you have a cell phone, then put a CC into that phone to use at places like hotels, gas stations grocery etc as another step against CC fraud.

By “put a CC into that phone” do you mean Apple Pay (or the Android equivalent)? Or is there something else?

I use Apple Pay and haven’t suffered CC fraud in years. Knocking on wood…



Serious about crackers.
December 19, 2023, 08:39 AM
Glynn863
OP here.

I added a CC to Apple Pay last August, when we replaced a defective iPad, because I opted to get additional Cloud storage for $0.99 per month. I didn't use Apple Pay for anything else. This CC was the one that was compromised.

On another note, even after getting a new email address and updating a lot of websites that I frequent, I'm still getting emails at the old (compromised) email address from these same websites, even after acknowledgments of changed email addresses.
December 19, 2023, 08:50 AM
ensigmatic
quote:
Originally posted by Glynn863:
OP here.

I added a CC to Apple Pay last August, when we replaced a defective iPad, because I opted to get additional Cloud storage for $0.99 per month. I didn't use Apple Pay for anything else. This CC was the one that was compromised.
In order to realize any additional protections Apple Pay might offer one has to use Apple Pay. Merely putting the card into Apple Pay does not suffice.

Though, as I found out a few months back, the latest generation of tap-to-pay credit cards, like Apple Pay, do not transmit the CC number, either.



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