Credit Card Fraud - UPDATE

For security and privacy reasons, I won't give the name of the website responsible for the charges to my credit card. I found out that the site is really nothing more than a personal website for a someone and his personal interests and so on. The idiot had various bits contact info and links on his page which made it easier to determine that this is nothing but something personal and it was easy to find out who it was. I doubt anything can or will be done about this, other than crediting my card for the charge. I'll see about forwarding this info to the authorities, if it's possible.


This message was edited Tuesday, Apr 9th 3:53 PM

I don't understand this time.. how could someone have used your credit card? Did he get your card number?

You should contact Bulgaria Embassy maybe, hehe ;) Maybe they can help you.

http://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/

http://www.usembassy.bg/

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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bu.html

hczone, how was he able to get your credit card number? Did you order something from one of his links? I'm scared to death to use my credit card online and have only ordered from two very well known companies but maybe now I won't use it at all.

We've used my credit card to order things online. I never ever heard of this person or the website. Like I said, this is just a personal website from the looks of it. I have no idea how he got my number, but I'd sure love to find out. They don't call them criminals for no reason you know. Don't everybody freak out and think you're unsafe now...this happens to the best of us no matter how careful we are. The only way I can figure that this person got our number was from online somewhere, somehow. He appears to have very good computer skills because it looks like (from what he say on his site) that he built his website. It's not a simple website like the one I have. His uses Flash Macromedia and other features. He's not a complete fool, but he is a thief.
Anyway, I did nothing to comprimise my credit card, so it was a good theft, that's for sure.

This message was edited Tuesday, Apr 9th 3:51 PM

I don't think I'd get my hopes up for any kind of justice. I had one of credit card numbers stolen twice. The first time I contacted the police. I was told after nine months "Oh it's some Russian credit card scheme out of New Jersey. There's nothing we can do." How fascinating. The money from the charges on my credit card had to be ending up SOMEWHERE-- I wonder if anyone bothered to try and trace it?

The second time I just cancelled my credit card number and got a new one. I now avoid buying anything online. I either snail mail it, fax it, or pick up the phone and call to order it. Makes things a whole lot simpler.

This message was edited Sunday, Apr 7th 1:23 PM

If I buy something from internet I pay it right away when ordered the things in my internet bank.. they have good paying systems here in Finland. :) Also you can pick up the things you've bought online from your nearest PO and pay them there.

Evert, Paying at the PO when you pick up is what we call C.O.D (cash on delivery) It used to be very popular here as well. But so many people refused shipments when they arrived that most companies here will not ship C.O.D. anymore. Some people were ordering things be sent to other people who knew nothing about it so they refused the packages. This left the company out the expense of packaging and shipping (both ways) It was good untill the bad people abused it!

Zanymuse, yes I tried to remember the 'word' (cod).. in Finland it's called postiennakko. Here it is still used pretty often but many people have internet bank and so.. it is also much more expensive to buy and pay with COD.

We call it Online banking. You get a secret number, a Code and this way, you pay your bills via PC. But it is not safe, no matter how often the credit institutes deny. Hackers can easy hack the code, get the number of your CC and off goes your money from your account.
It was shown on TV how easy it is, to get the CC number.
Paying with CC in a shop is rather seldom seen in Germany.
Most people dont have one.

Don't they have SSL? Here they are safe, or at least I haven't heard of any hackers on them.

Plastic money is not well liked, and so is the new money EURO. It remembers many of us playing as kids in our little grocery stores under the Christmas Tree

hczone6, do we not have any protection from our own State Department in matters such as this? Or Consumer Credit offices? Those countries have to deal with our country in many ways, and it seems like it would behoove them to keep our officials confident of reciprocity. Is there anything a politician could do to intervene on your behalf? It might be the web and its perils, but it all boils down to a criminal minded citizen, who should be easy for the powers of both countries to apprehend. Surely Bulgaria would not want to risk being seen as so corrupt as to allow this fraud to define them. I think someone in politics can find remedy, if you can inspire them.

I'm not sure what anyone in our government can do, but I may ask around. It wasn't "serious", but it was a charge on my card that I didn't authorize, nonetheless. I'm first going to wait and see if register.com actually shuts down the site, as they said they would. I'll wait a few days and see what happens. I need to let the domain name provider look into to it first to see how/when/who, related to the charges.

This message was edited Tuesday, Apr 9th 3:52 PM