A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the fraud division of American Express to ask about certain charges that were being made. I found out that somebody was making a number of high-dollar purchases. Subsequently, they were removed from my account, and a new card was issued. I received a new statement today, which showed more bogus charges! I contacted AmEx and was told that these charges were against an OLD card; one even before the one that had just been replaced! I asked the evident questions---why is a card not invalidated (taken out of their system) when a new one is issued? How can someone get a merchant to accept OLD card numbers, when they certainly do not have this card? Their reply was startling.....there are bogus cards out their, but the way this scam often goes down is, the perpetrator asks a clerk to slide a card, which doesn’t work. The perp then states that something must be wrong with the magnetic strip, and verbally gives them the numbers to type in! WATCH OUT!!!!
Photo Attribution: By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class LaTunya Howard [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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