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I just checked email this morning and found out my credit card number has been compromised. Jared Banegas from Houston Texas ordered some items from Walmart. We have the card cancelled and will get new cards in 10 days. I cancelled the orders that Jared B made at one of the Houston super centers and completely closed the account at Walmart.com. Jared from Houston hijacked my account at Walmart.com as well as using my credit card.
Now I have to worry about anything else showing up. It appears Jared was up early and made the orders before 7 a.m.. I cancelled before he could pick them up. So much BS. My wife and I took a trip to Arizona last week. I sure wish I knew where the number was taken from and how Jared B. managed to hijack the Walmart account. My guess is it was someone in Walmart.com but not from the trip.
Since the card is no longer valid I'm hoping this is the end of it.
kwg
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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Huge PITA, glad your card company flagged it
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Lots of “phishing” done by email. Hopefully you called your CC company and spoke to a representative personally to cancel the card.
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Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
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Had it happen a couple of times. One thief hacked into our money market account and transferred the money to another bank. We got our money back. We had to get new checking and money market accounts twice. I feel your pain.
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Visa security called me one day, and said "Are you in San Francisco right now, and did you just order two plane tickets to Hawaii for $1250?"
I said "No I'm in North Carolina." Visa cancelled the airplane tickets, told me to cut up my card, and mailed me a new card. Visa security is very good.
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Hate thieves. My card company does a pretty good job of alerting and I have a credit lock with TrueIdentity where a new account can't be opened in my name. That can be a PITA when you want to buy something because you forget all about it. If you want a new appliance for example and want a discount by applying for a card you have to log in and turn off the lock - and who ever remembers ID or password etc.... Still worth it.
I bought a scope on line last week. Leupold was misspelled but I am sure it is legit- lol.
I hit "buy" and within a minute my wife was shouting (not mad) from downstairs asking me if I just spent 'X' amount with some company called cameralandny? (shameless plug for Doug :-) ) Good feeling knowing someone is looking out for you.
There are many types of thieves. Had an AC guy do a 'service' two weeks ago and told me the oil on his fingertip meant I needed a whole new system.
Ever been to Just Brakes????
Also- never call a foundation repair company to see if you need work. Call a structural engineer to tell you.
Lately my emails are swamped with- I owe money for cloud storage... and McAfee (which I don't use) is going to expire....
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Lots of “phishing” done by email. Hopefully you called your CC company and spoke to a representative personally to cancel the card. This. They don’t target anyone, just mass emails.. But the less than tech savvy fall prey. Something like… “Capital one has noticed activity on your account, please login and verify” Well, the login on the email isn’t Capital one… You just gave them you login and password…
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These are Sam's Club cards. I get the feeling someone in the Walmart system used the card numbers and hijacked my Walmart.com account. I did manage to find the right person after a lot of trial and error and got the whole account canceled. They sent an email to me telling "Jared" the account was cancelled and closed. Since we don't use the Walmart.com account very often I'm going to assume "Jared" thought he could use it for a few days before I would notice.
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For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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My credit union is very good at keeping the account going, but I have had several hacks of my debit card. It irritates me to no end that, once it has been hacked, they cancel my card but the money still goes out to the damn crooks because, that is what they say is Visa's procedures. Lately getting scammed with calls from "fraud prevention." Jerks do not know that the union's fraud protection comes from another number, so I have had some fun leading them on. Best was answering the phone with "This is the Spokane County Sheriff''s fraud division, how can I help you". Never heard scumbags hang up so fast. All i ask is that they give me the name and address of the thieves and I will take care of it from that point.
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I sincerely believe that electronic theft should be punished by death
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I sincerely believe that electronic theft should be punished by death , immediately..
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I just checked email this morning and found out my credit card number has been compromised. Jared Banegas from Houston Texas ordered some items from Walmart. We have the card cancelled and will get new cards in 10 days. I cancelled the orders that Jared B made at one of the Houston super centers and completely closed the account at Walmart.com. Jared from Houston hijacked my account at Walmart.com as well as using my credit card.
Now I have to worry about anything else showing up. It appears Jared was up early and made the orders before 7 a.m.. I cancelled before he could pick them up. So much BS. My wife and I took a trip to Arizona last week. I sure wish I knew where the number was taken from and how Jared B. managed to hijack the Walmart account. My guess is it was someone in Walmart.com but not from the trip.
Since the card is no longer valid I'm hoping this is the end of it.
kwg What time was that in Nigeria?
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Some of them aren't too smart. A couple years ago, my wife's Costco CC got hit for $2200 paying for premiums on 2 Progressive car insurance policies. it's not too bright to use a stolen card to pay for something that has your name and address attached. Visa cancelled the card immediately and refunded the account within hours. We never heard what they did about the thief.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Wow, it doesn’t have to be someone at Walmart. Could be a gas station worker, card skimmer on a pump or half a dozen other ways. As far as hacking your account at Walmart, ha, for some that’s about as easy as opening a beer can.
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There's a flip side to credit card companies aggressively monitoring purchases. When I was driving 1K+ miles per week on business, it was not uncommon for me to purchase gas and/or rent motel rooms in different states several times in a week. Until I made special arrangements with my bank, my card(s) might be frozen for "suspicious activity" when I was a few hundred miles from home. Try being almost out of gas in St. Louis or West Memphis at 2:00 AM, and the card won't work at a gas station!
A motel clerk south of Chicago ordered a brand new pair of expensive running shoes in the middle of the night- - - -a couple of hours after I checked in. That charge got disputed and refunded! My wife tried to pay our cardiologist online one day, and a hacker on his website almost managed to transfer $35K from our savings account to a bank in Singapore. That one was within minutes of happening when we managed to get the bank to pull the plug on the transaction.
Ignorance can be fixed. Stupid is forever!
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Last week my CU fraud dept called and asked about a couple K being spent at casinos, Ticketmaster and something else. Wasn't me of course. They refunded all the monies.
Hate it.
Happened to my brother too - "Did you just buy a new Sea-Doo in Miami?" - nope. Ended that.
Course - he had the opposite. "Calling about a 400 dollar bar tab at 11am on Tuesday, looks like fraud" - no, no, that was me. lol
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I have notification of any cc purchases texted to my I phone.
I also have receive a few Text messages that I was purchasing items, in some states a long way away. and I call my credit card company right away. The last time, I was on the phone with a credit card rep while someone was trying to purchase some items in different states at the same time.
with my credit cards I have my cell phone set up to receive text messages fro all purchase's and the cc company will call if they spot anything unusual happening.
plus they know that I call them when I am making an un usual purchase. letting them know the business and approximate amount of the purchase.
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https://m.facebook.com/jared.benegasAnyone got Farcebook? Might be worth a look see!
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They need to be tracked down, brought to the town square, tied to a post and flogged to within an inch of their lives. They'd think twice before wanting to steal again.
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