Hi everyone...Just wanted to warn everybody to be careful using your debit cards/credit cards to buy online. We've used our debit card (Mastercard) almost exclusively to buy everything (both online and just about everywhere else - stores, restaurants, etc.). This is the SECOND time in 2 years we've been ripped off by someone...the first time they got us for $900 and this time it was $1400! I don't know if it was somebody who hacked the number online, or whether somebody at some store or restaurant kept a copy of the receipt with our account number on it, or what...but it stinks! The money is covered by Mastercard but I can guarantee you I WON'T be using my debit card like I used to (especially won't be using it to buy anything online). The woman at the bank told me it's happening with a lot more frequency lately and that, in fact, the day after I was in another woman had the same thing happen to her, with the thief buying things in the same general geographic location as had happened to us. Be careful!
Debit Card # Theft!
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dani21496
Cathlete
That's terrible! I had something similar happen.
The guy kept ordering from all these PIZZA places using my debit card number. He'd buy like $15 worth of food and leave a $100, or so tip (over the amount) and then have the pizza place give him the cash for the tip. He did this like 6 times during one week, using all different kinds of pizza places.
He was not very smart because he had the food DELIVERED every time and signed his own name. So when I called the pizza places they had the address of the guy!!! The bank put a block on that number right away and I was refunded. I also filed a police report and gave them his name and address.
This guy lived in the same town I serviced my car. I think I may have had an old reciept underneath the seat of my car. When I took it in for maintenance, maybe someone there got it. This was an old debit card I thought was cancelled like a year earlier. I had a replacement card with a new number and this person was using my OLD number which apparently the bank never cancelled. I'm still not sure how he got this number because I hadn't used this number for over a year.
Now, I always check my bank account online EVERY day to see what transactions went through. I also purchased a shredder and destroy every receipt I get with the number on it. I try to always use cash now at restaurants too.
The guy kept ordering from all these PIZZA places using my debit card number. He'd buy like $15 worth of food and leave a $100, or so tip (over the amount) and then have the pizza place give him the cash for the tip. He did this like 6 times during one week, using all different kinds of pizza places.
He was not very smart because he had the food DELIVERED every time and signed his own name. So when I called the pizza places they had the address of the guy!!! The bank put a block on that number right away and I was refunded. I also filed a police report and gave them his name and address.
This guy lived in the same town I serviced my car. I think I may have had an old reciept underneath the seat of my car. When I took it in for maintenance, maybe someone there got it. This was an old debit card I thought was cancelled like a year earlier. I had a replacement card with a new number and this person was using my OLD number which apparently the bank never cancelled. I'm still not sure how he got this number because I hadn't used this number for over a year.
Now, I always check my bank account online EVERY day to see what transactions went through. I also purchased a shredder and destroy every receipt I get with the number on it. I try to always use cash now at restaurants too.
My gosh, Danielle, that's unbelievable!!! That guy was definitely stupid!! I can't believe he actually had them delivered to his house! And then he'd go back to the pizza places and say he way overtipped and have them give him back money? WOW! Also, VERY scary he was using an OLD debit card # of yours! Geez, I'll tell ya...there are wayyyy too many n'er-do-well's in this world!!!
MSJ
Cathlete
This happened to us several years ago--someone bought a bunch of phone cards--$20.00 here and $50.00 there. I am ashamed to admit that because I was lazy about balancing the checkbook I did not notice until they overdrew our account. All told they stole only about $150--probably would have been more if we'd had more money--and getting it back from Wells Fargo took about 6 months. We changed banks and are very careful with our debit card number. Thanks for warning others!
take care
Maggie
take care
Maggie
I realized that lately when you use a credit card, that some places print the entire number on the receipt instead of just the last 4 digits. Some friends and I were talking about this recently at dinner and we crossed out all the numbers before we returned it to the waiter. It is ashamed what some people will do. We shouldn't have to live in a world where we are constantly looking over our shoulders.
dani21496
Cathlete
>My gosh, Danielle, that's unbelievable!!! That guy was
>definitely stupid!! I can't believe he actually had them
>delivered to his house! And then he'd go back to the pizza
>places and say he way overtipped and have them give him back
>money? WOW! Also, VERY scary he was using an OLD debit card
># of yours! Geez, I'll tell ya...there are wayyyy too many
>n'er-do-well's in this world!!!
I agree! Actually, he wasn't telling them he overtipped. I talked to someone who used to work for a pizza place and she said, it was common for people to write big tip amounts on the receipts and have them give them the cash for it. Kind of like writing a check over the amount to get cash back. Crazy!! I can't believe the pizza places did this. He hit about 3 or 4 different pizza places in the area. They all gave him the cash over the amount. Crazy!! What also got me is he never had my actual card. He just ordered over the phone, and then when he signed the receipt he asked for cash back.
>definitely stupid!! I can't believe he actually had them
>delivered to his house! And then he'd go back to the pizza
>places and say he way overtipped and have them give him back
>money? WOW! Also, VERY scary he was using an OLD debit card
># of yours! Geez, I'll tell ya...there are wayyyy too many
>n'er-do-well's in this world!!!
I agree! Actually, he wasn't telling them he overtipped. I talked to someone who used to work for a pizza place and she said, it was common for people to write big tip amounts on the receipts and have them give them the cash for it. Kind of like writing a check over the amount to get cash back. Crazy!! I can't believe the pizza places did this. He hit about 3 or 4 different pizza places in the area. They all gave him the cash over the amount. Crazy!! What also got me is he never had my actual card. He just ordered over the phone, and then when he signed the receipt he asked for cash back.