Got a voice mail about an online order from a high end department store. They needed me to confirm the order since the billing location differed from the shipping location. No way I was going to call back the number so I went to their web site and found a search feature using the order number they gave me in the voice mail and my billing zip code. Sure enough the order comes up with my address and last 4 digits of my credit card. I then went out to my credit card's web site and verified the order was on there. It was! I called the store's customer support number on the web site and had them cancel the order. I just called the credit card company to cancel the cards and have new ones sent. I've put fraud alerts on my credit report and I'm about to go check my bank accounts and Amazon before filing a theft report with the FTC.
To the SOB who stole and used my card info. I hope you get bitten in the genital area by 10 brown recluse spiders and are forced to watch the skin peel from your nether regions until you're faced with death or amputation.
Oh yeah...almost forgot....FUCK YOU!!!!
Edit: Forgot to mention in case it helps someone else...the only reason I got called by the fraud department at the department store....the charge was over $500, I had never ordered from them before AND the kicker...the shipping address was different than the billing address.
You have the shipping address.
$10 bet that the person it was being shipped to is being scammed too. I answered a job ad for a personal assistant where the position would have been working from home, reshipping orders while the boss was "overseas." Saw through it from a mile away. Then while working a customer service phone job got a call about an order on a card that wasn't placed by the billing party. Found the order was out for delivery & called the local police. The police went to the address & found the homeowner had taken a job as a personal assistant, reshipping orders while the boss he never met is out of the country. They said he didn't seem too bright, and that they had seen it before.
What these scam artists do is sell things online as legit sales on eBay for great bargain prices for the buyers who pay them directly, then they use stolen CC info to place the orders & ship to the middleman.
I've also seen where they place the order to ship directly to the person that orders from them, leaving the customer wondering why a legit company is using a personal eBay account to do business.
Fuck you, scammers!
A perfectly legal scam I found people do is similar, but without the stolen CC of course. Find a company that is having a big sale. Let's say it's on winter coats. The coat retails for $400, but is on sale for 40% off. You then list the coat on eBay for $300. If it sells you place the order for the coat, pay the $240, but in the shipping info you put the person who paid you $300. You then pocket the profit.
Fuck politics.
