Someone got our Debit Card Number

[sparks]

Our daughter just caught a 15 year old @ the store she works at. He found a purse and started charging right away. Came into her store and they were suspicious and locked the doors(quietly) and called the police. Sounds like he had a heck of a weekend spree. The sad thing is he really didn`t seem to need it.

 

[cjparker]

I just have to respond. Locking the doors was an incredibly dangerous thing to do. That kid could have been carrying a weapon. Not likely, of course, but there is no knowing what a "trapped" person will do. Even something as spur of the moment as throwing something can cause serious injury. When I managed a large convenience store, it was company policy to never confront a thief, but to let the police do their job. Even if they wanted all the cash. ESPECIALLY if they wanted all the cash.

Off my soapbox now. I am shocked and disturbed by how many people this has happened to, in a relatively small group such as this. Any thief who took my debit card info would be quite disappointed. We never have any money. :/

One way to reduce risk when paying online is with Paypal. You link your bank account to paypal and then pay with the paypal account. Your debit card or credit card info is never seen by the people on the other end of the transaction.

 

[gettinaclue]

Thank you all for mentioning this since we were not notified by our bank.

Lo and behold, I caught some bad charges just made today, one for 100.00!

Had them shut down our cards - both of them to be safe.

Thank God for this heads up!

 

[hennypenny9]

I had the same thing happen. Very small charge, $2.00, then a $100.00 one. I called my bank's fraud number, and they said that the charges hadn't posted yet. They didn't allow the charges to post (go through) and the money was never removed from my account. It was a debit card. I called the same day they attempted to charge these things. They canceled the card on the spot, and issued a new one for free. The trick is to catch it early.

I'm sad because I really liked my bank, Washington Mutual, and now who knows what Chase will be like...

Another thing happened to my parents. My mom called her cell phone provider for a question. The next week she got her credit card statement. There was a huge amount to the cell company. She called and they said she had activated three new cell phone numbers!! She could NOT have done this, as she is not the primary on the account. Long (horrible) story short, the employee worked on commission and did it to get money. They would not back down on their claim that my mom did it, until she showed the top manager our phone records. The call to the company lasted two minutes. It is not possible to activate thee new cell numbers in that amount of time. So we won, but it was awful.

 

[gettinaclue]

That's pretty much how it started with me.

Two charges of 1.00 a piece and then the 100.00 charge.

Scary stuff!

 

[ams3651]

Apparently there was big problem at Visa a little while ago. I got a call from my bank that Visa had sent a list of card numbers that were "compromised" and that they had canceled my card and I had to go to the bank and apply for a new one. (3 weeks it took ) They wont tell the bank, who, where, why, nothing about what happend. I come to find out from numerous other people that this was a huge deal. From many banks, many people. I was told to watch my account but havent seen any problems. I think it happened to their (Visa) data base and they wont admit it.

 

[Nifty]

I had credit card number stolen twice. Both times no actual $$ I had to pay out.

The last time (5 years ago) we got a call from a florist who asked if we ordered flowers... said the person using the card seemed "off". I quickly looked online and saw it was just used at a hotel in San Francisco. I called the hotel, but the peeps had just left. That would have been sweet to send the police (or cousin Guido) over to give them some special room service.