credit-card-fraud

Keep An Eye On Credit Card Charges To Sniff Out Fraud
If someone swipes your credit card info and goes on a spending spree, there's a decent chance the company will catch the fraud, freeze your account and refund your money. Things can get trickier when the thief is more careful about his purchases, buying low-cost items at irregular intervals. More Â»

Senator Is Victim Of Credit Card Fraud, Thieves Rack Up $12,000 At Walmart
It's a measure of the brazenness and ubiquity of identity theft that a U.S. Senator has become the latest victim of credit card fraud. Thieves stole the credit card numbers belonging to Senator Daniel Inouye (D) of Hawaii, embedded them on the magnetic strip of a fake credit card, and went on a $12,000 Walmart shopping spree. More Â»

Shell Gas Station Uses Stickers To Prevent Credit Card Skimming
As gas stations with pay-at-the pump, ATMs and other unattended machines where you scan your credit card get hit by skimmers tampering with their equipment, some businesses are taking preventative measures by way of a simple sticker. More Â»

Check Out This Nearly Undetectable ATM Skimmer
Reader Andrew noticed this picture of an an incredibly high-end professional ATM skimmer that is virtually undetectable. More Â»

Inmate Ran $1 Million Credit Card Scam Using Cell Phone & Secret Shoppers
Armed with only an illegal cellphone and a cadre of secret shoppers, an inmate at the nation's largest single federal prison was able to coordinate upwards of $1 million in credit card fraud in the outside world. More Â»

Bank Of America Opens, Closes Credit Card Customer Never Applied For
As a wee baby consumer, Kodi's parents taught her that credit cards are terrible things that she should avoid. She did her best, avoiding credit cards, but wasn't able to stay away completely. Not because of any failure of her willpower, but because somehow Bank of America applied for and obtained a credit card on her behalf without her asking for it—or even knowing about it. More Â»

Caller ID Says "Phone Scam"
Telemarketing credit card fraudsters aren't even trying anymore. Reader Chris took a picture of the caller ID for one of them actually showing up as "PHONE SCAM." More Â»

Thieves Steal $10 Million, Pennies At A Time
These credit card thieves allegedly stole over $10 million by placing bogus charges on customers' credit cards for amounts between $10 and $.20. Each customer was stolen from only once, spreading the theft out over a million different cardholders. Check your statements, there's a decent chance you were one of them. More Â»

Three Men Arrested In Heartland Data Breach For Using Fake Visa Gift Cards

—>The U.S. Secret Service has arrested three men in Florida on "hundreds of counts of credit card fraud" for using fake gift cards imprinted with account info stolen from Heartland Payment Systems last year. The Secret Service still thinks an Eastern European group is behind the Heartland breach, and that the Florida guys are smaller-time crooks who most likely purchased a subset of the stolen data.  More Â»

Best Buy Employee Arrested For Using Customer Credit Cards

—>A Customer Associate for a Best Buy in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was indicted on Thursday for credit card fraud—three counts of making fraudulent purchases over $2500, three counts of making fraudulent purchases over $500, over 20 counts of falsely signing credit card slips, and 1 count of disposing of stolen property.   More Â»

Woman Used Dead Grandma's Credit Card To Charge Up $11,000

—>Melanie Schleiger is proof that credit card fraud sometimes starts at home, after she and her boyfriend were arrested last week for making 69 purchases totaling $11,715 on a credit card belonging to her grandmother, who died in 2003. The charges were discovered when the deceased woman's daughter-in-law received the bill and called the police. It's going to be an awkward Fourth of July this year!  More Â»