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Pochsy wrote:

Woke up this morning to several fraudulent charges on my credit card. Second time in 2 years. Some of them are for memberships too, which sucks ass because it takes an argument with the company to stop charging me monthly.

Last time this happened they used a credit card ping to access my actual bank accounts and started transferring the max e-transfer amount out multiple times. I was even on the phone with the fraud department as it was happening watching the money get drained. Going to hope these guys aren't so sophisticated.

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uziq wrote:

lmao yeah it’s waiters and service staff who are responsible for credit card fraud

you’re really suspicious of your own class aren’t you jay?

it’s trivially easy for credit card companies to track a fraud to a store or restaurant. i’m pretty sure cc companies have fraud investigation teams that go to restaurants or any common hotspots associated with bad cards. restaurants have cctv. they keep staff rota information. it’s just way too easy to get caught.

most credit card fraud is just low-level criminals and idiots taking shit off the internet. hackers and organised criminal gangs. it is so quick and easy to find a database or excel spreadsheet leak with 100,000s of credit card details — the dark net is full of them. the other popular way is rubbish sifting. criminal gangs have contacts in refuse collection or recycling plants or whatever and they get your paperwork. most people don’t bother shredding things. you can very quickly perform identity theft or leverage your way into someone’s banking details with only a few paper statements and phone calls. for organized crime, where their activities often involve human trafficking/prostitution, manufacturing fake IDs, etc, all this stuff is a doozy. they already know all the loopholes and weak links, e.g, which service providers have phone centre staff who are easy to bamboozle/socially engineer etc.

i would guess 90% of credit card fraud is young street-level criminals, ‘road men’, drug addicts/pushers, etc, who rip some card details from a leaked database, ride them for a week or two to get their latest air jordans or whatever, and then move on to the next row of the excel spreadsheet when it stops working.

there was a site a few years ago where you could track just how many times your data and sensitive info had been leaked in major security breaches or hacks. even like an innocuous gmail, which i had nothing important associated with, had been blown wide open and leaked all over the internet like 7 times in 5 years or whatever.