I noticed some odd charges on my bank account when I got hit with several overdraft fees —nothing large, usually $14.95, $14.95, $24.95.
From the company website verbiage, I found that I was supposed to be getting all these great deals on home furnishings. Well, that's great — but I live on a small sailboat.
When you go to their website to "retrieve membership information, " you are redirected to another website that tries to capture either your email address or your debit/credit card number.
I caught one transaction and called the company to cancel the fraudulent membership (the phone rep got kind of snotty when I asked her if it was okay if I recorded our conversation.) I started poring over my bank statements from the past two months. Yep, two more similar transactions from affiliated companies.
Keep a close eye on all your transactions. I was busy during the month of August and just found these charges a couple of days ago.
If this isn't credit-card fraud, I don't know what is.
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