AnnaK
04-16-2007, 07:55 PM
There's a large number of people affected by this and I bet some of us here are, too.
On one of my cards is a charge fro $12.95 from something called INTERNET LOGOS LLC, which I don't recognize as a merchant I've done business with. That happens, and when it does, I google them which mostly produces a memory jog and all is well. This time I came across a fraud report at ripoffreports.com, here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff242782.htm (http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff242782.htm).
I run an e-mail list and posted a cautionary note there and the response was stunning. Many of our members had a similar charge for $12.95, albeit from different merchants. What these merchants all have in common is that they don't exist.
Sleuthing some more, I came upon this link: http://www.veganrepresent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10866 . I especially like the entry by "Nigel" at the end.
At any rate, heads up. Take a look at your statements, paper or online. If you have a charge for $12.95, it's possibly fraudulent. You may want to follow through with your CC company.
The commonality within my e-mail list membership is that we ordered online from a merchant who uses safeshopper.com as her e-commerce portal. Maybe safeshopper.com isn't as secure as their SSL protocol claims to be. Maybe they've been hacked or compromised. Maybe they have a siphoning employee. Whatever.
It's a major PITA having to go through the cancelation of a card and all the debits associated with it but once that card number is out there, the card is history.
And how was your day? :)
On one of my cards is a charge fro $12.95 from something called INTERNET LOGOS LLC, which I don't recognize as a merchant I've done business with. That happens, and when it does, I google them which mostly produces a memory jog and all is well. This time I came across a fraud report at ripoffreports.com, here: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff242782.htm (http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff242782.htm).
I run an e-mail list and posted a cautionary note there and the response was stunning. Many of our members had a similar charge for $12.95, albeit from different merchants. What these merchants all have in common is that they don't exist.
Sleuthing some more, I came upon this link: http://www.veganrepresent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10866 . I especially like the entry by "Nigel" at the end.
At any rate, heads up. Take a look at your statements, paper or online. If you have a charge for $12.95, it's possibly fraudulent. You may want to follow through with your CC company.
The commonality within my e-mail list membership is that we ordered online from a merchant who uses safeshopper.com as her e-commerce portal. Maybe safeshopper.com isn't as secure as their SSL protocol claims to be. Maybe they've been hacked or compromised. Maybe they have a siphoning employee. Whatever.
It's a major PITA having to go through the cancelation of a card and all the debits associated with it but once that card number is out there, the card is history.
And how was your day? :)