1 Name: Hatash!HATStoI1IE : 2013-12-27 10:33 ID:eYQiRAGY (Image: 730x488 jpg, 29 kb) [Del]
Source, if you want to read more about this: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/online-hacks-plastic-fakes-strange-life-stolen-credit-card-2D11803344
Six days before Christmas, Shaw Lash's debit card was used at a Toys R Us in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
The problem? Lash wasn't at Toys R Us buying gifts. In fact, she had her card with her when Chase Bank sent her a text message warning that someone had just tried to make a suspicious purchase for $379 using her account numbers.
"It was kind of sad," Lash, 33, a video producer from Manhattan, told NBC News, noting the holiday timing. She had, however, been shopping at a Target in Vauxhall, N.J., during the first week of December. That convinced her that she was one of the up to 40 million Target customers who had their credit or debit card information stolen between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 from retail stores throughout the United States.
Like other bank customers, she wasn't told exactly where her debit card data had been stolen from, so the timing could just be a coincidence. Still, that doesn't change the fact that someone with a fake version of her debit card nearly got away with boosting some Christmas loot until the purchase was rejected at the register.
"The thing about it that makes me uncomfortable is that you don't use credit cards online at vendors that aren't reputable," Lash told NBC News. "You want to use Amazon, or go to Barnes & Noble or Target because they give you a sense of security and safety."
So, how did a fake debit card with Lash's number end up in someone's else hands? Here is what usually happens when your financial information is hijacked by hackers.
4 Name: Tsuki : 2014-01-04 11:15 ID:eysjuCxU [Del]
This has actually happened to me a couple of times. My card got rejected at a store once and it was super embarrassing because there was a long queue of people behind me. I had enough cash to pay for my item, but it was still a really weird situation to be in.
The other time, I was trying to buy a CD at a music store and the store clerk ended up calling my bank because they said that there was a problem with my card and I had to answer security questions on the phone to the bank's spokesperson. Apparently, someone had tried to buy something using my card details in Spain. I've never been to Spain.
So yeah, some scary shit.
5 Name: Sakunya S. !/aPzExRzGw : 2014-01-07 11:24 ID:39e3/bSJ [Del]
that's a bit frightening 0_0 there was this one time when my mom's credit card kept getting an error, which kept sending $500 into her account from a jewelry store, and we though someone stole her card. Fortunately, it was just an account mistake.
