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Originally Posted by mapuc
And that made me a little nervous, have one of the pages where I have used my credit card been hacked??
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It is a possibility.Of course if they had your card number they would really have no reason to fish it from you.They would need the number and the three or four digit number on the back in order to use it.The scam sounds pretty low ball by saying that you purchased illegal items that is a scare tactic to fool fools.
They where hoping I'm sure that you would send in your card number and extra code(forget what they call that CVT or something).
I would not worry about it to much obviously your account is fine and there are no charges on it that you do not permit.
I do not know where you are going though not every site is reliable.
It most likely is just someone fishing and not related to any place that you have purchased things from.
Interesting thing though is that I never get any phishing scams in my e-mail.
I hate to say it but I bet that those phishing scams work on a lot of people.Not every person that has an e-mail account is the sharpest tool in the shed.
When you go to a physical store you should watch the clerk like a hawk some will try and swipe your card on a small reader that stores the information on your card to be mined later then they take that data and a card machine and make a another card.By mining the data they can crack it and find out your pin number and everything.Only allow a clerk to use the actual card reader(in most cases you are the one that does this) if they try to hide that they a swiping the card do not leave that place until you contact the police. Iwould avoid places where you hand the card to someone and they are out of your site they can either swap the card with a reader.These readers are very small they can fit in the palm of your hand.Some of these scanners are so small they can be glued on top of a legitimate scanner like at a gas pump or ATM that way the machine operates normally and the card gets scanned twice once by the legitimate seller and by the person that placed the illegal scanner.
It is known as skimming.
Here is a cheesy video but it explains how it works.Watch closely.The kind that gets glued to the front of an ATM or gas pump you just have to look closely for an extra gap that should not be there.
Here is an ATM type skimmer
If you have a card with an RFID(the kind you wave in front of a reader) you may as well drop your pants because nearly any device such as a smart phone could have a program that allows them to read your info and they only need to get within a few feet of your RFID.At least you can watch a person who tries to slight of hand swipe your card with a skimmer and then promptly break their fingers then knock their teeth out.I will do that to any person that tries that crap with me and I do not care if I get arrested for it.