Identity theft

[WhiteHawk]

No not me, this is someone who had my license and SSN. I'm assuming from a credit application or maybe even urgent care. I recently sold a car and I'm second guessing myself if I left dealership paperwork in the glove box. Capital one is pulling Menard's receipt so I'm hoping they will share camera footage from the register transactions.

I just had someone use a copy of my credit card at Ikea and an Aldi in Canton. Someone actually made a clone of my card and used it in the store in person. I saw it the second day, and quickly cancelled the card, but it is scary that someone even had this info. Either two things happened - my card got stolen in a national breach then sold to someone locally, or someone locally got a copy of my card. It is like they have already moved past identity theft and are just skipping directly to stealing your cards.

-Geoff

 

[ShadowRuleZ]

I just had someone use a copy of my credit card at Ikea and an Aldi in Canton. Someone actually made a clone of my card and used it in the store in person. I saw it the second day, and quickly cancelled the card, but it is scary that someone even had this info. Either two things happened - my card got stolen in a national breach then sold to someone locally, or someone locally got a copy of my card. It is like they have already moved past identity theft and are just skipping directly to stealing your cards.

-Geoff

They sell them by zip code so it wouldn't surprise me that it's local. They usually get the raw dump of the magnetic strip and just clone it on a new card.

 

[Hugger Z]

Wife just had her credit card cloned. We got fraud alerts about charges over in Sterling Heights last week. The charges got denied and new card issued. But still a major pain in the rear. We think someone had a cloning machine at the drive thru or something. This is the second time something like this happened to her in the last 4 or 5 years. It happened to me once and I am almost positive I know the store where it happened. I stopped at that store on a Fri for some juice for my wife. Sun I was working the property when the bank called asking if I was charging stuff over in GR. I was like NO, cards are inside on my dresser and I have not left home all weekend..... So frustrating. Guy must have had a scanner under the counter when he went to swipe my card for the juice.... :angry: