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♥♥Gone to pastures new. Thanks to all of you. You are a lovely crowd, but time does not permit me to do the site justice any more♥♥
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I have brought this forward as a warning to people buying on the internet for Christmas. Be careful, and do not give information in email. !!!!!
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I ordered something from a Power Tool company. They are a great company and I do not really wish to link them to my warning, although immediately after my order I received an email saying that they need me to confirm the number of my credit card.
I did this without even thinking and then on the news, I caught an item about credit card fraud, and the manner in which credit card fraud people are working. They wait until you make an order over the internet. Apparently, they have access to everything except your credit card number, and the email that follows is from a made up address that sounds like the firm you ordered from, and you furnish them with the last little bit of information they need to use your credit card. So far the thieves have managed to spend Eight thousand Pounds on my credit card. The Bank tells me that they will be relatively easy to trace but I really do not want to see any of my friends on here get got especially if they do not have insurance cover for credit card fraud. My Bank which are Credit Agricole here in France cover me, so I am one of the fortunate ones.
This is scarey stuff, especially so near to Christmas. I have never understood how people can with any conscience spend other peoples money on presents. What kind of presents are bought with stolen money ? It is a violation of people's privacy, and is a dangerous practice that could cost people millions.
Please please beware that no reputable firm will ask you for your credit card number in an email. I was stupid and ignorant in thinking that they would. When you receive an email, you trust its contents if it is from the firm you have been dealing with and I am pretty shrewd normally and it got through and did its business with me, so please please beware.
This is not the time of year when we need to be swindled. This card probably won;t work for the theives, and I just hope they have to put a delivery address so we can trace them. I have never used this card successfully on the net so far so I hope they get the same hassle. It's a card that is current, but it is foreign.
Happy Christmas shopping folks, but do not give your credit card details in an email. It causes no end of worry, and at this very moment, I have no idea how much has been spent on my card.
Thanks for reading.
Rachel
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As far as I know the only secure way to give your card no on the net is via secure site (https:). Everything that you send by e-mail is relativelly easy to get at! In my working times I used to have a paranoid client working in a very, very competitive industry and they insisted that all materials that are send to and from them are packed using rar archiver and password-protected.
inycon2 03.04.2004 16:22
Thankyou for the warning. I too might do this without thinking if it happened to me.
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