[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Fwd: Clever credit card scam Important
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And, this is why I buy VISA gift cards and use those for any purchases. That
way, if the information is stolen, they only get a small amount of money.
Barb Hively - PA
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Subject: Fwd: Clever credit card scam Important
See below,scary
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Sent: Fri, Dec 26, 2014 3:55 pm
Subject: Clever credit card scam
Hi,
This is definitely worth reading and following.
Parker
This email I just received from friend has been circulated in prior years, yet
Snopes says it is true.
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/express.asp
There is a new and clever credit card scam.
Please circulate this.
Someone it happened to says it works like this:
Wednesday a week ago, I had a phone call from someone who
said that he was from some outfit called: "Express Couriers" asking if I was
going to be home because there was a package for me, and the caller said that
the delivery would arrive at my home in roughly an hour. And sure enough, about
an hour later, a uniformed delivery man turned up with a beautiful basket of
flowers and wine. I was very surprised since it did not involve any special
occasion or holiday, and I certainly didn't expect anything like it. Intrigued
about who would send me such a gift, I inquired as to who the sender is. The
delivery man's reply was, he was only delivering the gift package, but
allegedly a card was being sent separately; (the card has never arrived!).
There was also a consignment note with the gift.
He then went on to explain that because the gift contained alcohol,
there was a $3.50 "delivery charge" as proof that he had actually delivered the
package to an adult, and not just left it on the doorstep where it could be
stolen or taken by anyone.
This sounded logical and I offered to pay him cash. He
then said that the company required the payment to be by credit or debit card
only so that everything is properly accounted for.
My husband, who by this time was standing beside me,
pulled his wallet out of his pocket with the credit/debit card, and 'John', the
"delivery man", asked my husband to swipe the card on the small mobile card
machine which had a small screen and keypad where Frank was also asked to enter
the card's PIN and security number. A receipt was printed out and given to us.
To our horrible surprise, between Thursday and the
following Monday, $4,000 had been charged/withdrawn from our credit/debit
account at various ATM machines.
It appeared that somehow the "mobile credit card machine"
which the delivery man carried now had all the info necessary to create a
"dummy" card with all our card details after my husband swiped our card and
entered the requested PIN and security number.
Upon finding out about the illegal transactions on our
card, we immediately notified the bank which issued us the card, and our
credit/debit account was closed.
We also personally went to the Police, where it was
confirmed that it is definitely a scam because several households had been
similarly hit.
WARNING: Be wary of accepting any "surprise gift or
package", which you neither expected nor personally ordered, especially if it
involves any kind of payment as a condition of receiving the gift or package.
Also, never accept anything if you do not personally know or there is no proper
identification of who the sender is.
Above all, the only time you should give out any personal
credit/debit card information is when you yourself initiated the purchase or
transaction!
If you pass this on, it may just prevent someone else from
being swindled!
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