How Did They Steal my Visa Card Number?

Andrew Scherer

Andrew Scherer

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Kind of confusing. I only use my visa card (connected to my bank account) at the ATM and once in a blue moon online. When its online it was on a wireless connection on a laptop at my home in Mexico.

Now after I research I understand sending anything like that over a wireless connection is pretty unsecure, am I correct?

Could it have been someone nearby sniffing wireless connections or something?

Rang up like $500 worth of $100 transactions at some stupid places like a toy store in a mexican state somewhere far away. I wish I knew who it was so I could punch them in the face.
 


Honestly could be anything man. I had like $2k in charges on my Mastercard a few months back and after thinking about it for a little bit I just said fuck it no point of trying to figure it out.

Could be an employee at a retailer, could be someone hackin into a retailer, could be a shady retailer, atm, computer virus, wireless...shit even the banks get hacked into more often than they should and thousands of numbers get stolen. Don't stress about it just let visa handle it and get you a new one.
 
m0rtal said:
Honestly could be anything man. I had like $2k in charges on my Mastercard a few months back and after thinking about it for a little bit I just said fuck it no point of trying to figure it out.

Could be an employee at a retailer, could be someone hackin into a retailer, could be a shady retailer, atm, computer virus, wireless...shit even the banks get hacked into more often than they should and thousands of numbers get stolen. Don't stress about it just let visa handle it and get you a new one.
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Yeah you're right. Better just to not worry about it
 
Anything is possible, but to lower the chances of it being outside sniffing, only use your card number with a merchant behind a valid SSL Certificate. Since that way the communication between yourself and retailer is encrypted, but if the retailer is shady or an employee thereof, won't help.

There's course stuff like trojans, malwares and keyloggers that look for those kind of numbers too. So regular virus scan helps too.
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqic_aY3TqQ]YouTube - The Real Hustle - The WiFi Scam[/ame]
 
Last year a buddy of mine got a call from his bank asking if certain purchases recently made were his. Somebody had somehow made a copy of his credit card and in one day purchased 2 Panasonic plasmas at Best Buy, bought lunch at a random restaurant and tried to go back to Best Buy and purchase a laptop -- that is when the bank denied it and did a call check.

He never lost his credit card and always had it with him just making the typical purchases online and offline. Called the cops and never heard back from them whether they were able to catch the fraudsters. I have no idea how they were able to even get his #'s and make a copy of his card.

Anyway, his bank took off the charges and he didn't have to do any paperwork or anything. I was actually surprised how easy is to get the charges reversed.
 
HarveyJ said:
Skimmers: Here's What A Card Skimmer Looks Like On An ATM
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Holy shit thanks for this link! I withdrew at one of the supermarket ATMs yesterday around the same time my number was stolen and a bunch of purchases were made. I remember the ATM was bulky looking like that and I thought about it for a second but I wasn't experienced enough to catch it.

I'm going to have to go back there tomorrow and check it out. I don't want anyone else getting burned.
 
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