How many times have you had one of your credit or debit cards compromised? Recently, I had two skimmed at an ATM in Rio de Janeiro (read more here).
I received the above message from HSBC yesterday and thought “here we go again”. The airlines usually first ping the card with a small amount to see if it is good before putting the actual charge through.
The problem is that I have never used this card with Delta and rarely make any online travel purchases using it. I do swipe it quite often and I would assume that some hotel employee on my recent travels in South Africa or Mauritius decided to make extra money on the side by selling the card number.
Many of my other cards use Verified by Visa, Mastercard SecureCode or American Express SafeKey. This HSBC Premier Mastercard, however, only sends you a text after every “card not present” authorization.
Conclusion
No fraudulent charge has come through yet. However I need to monitor the card activity for the next few days to see if there is indeed an airline ticket purchase coming through from Delta.
These fraudulent card charges are really an inconvenience for someone who travels a lot. The replacement cards for the Rio breach have arrived but I won’t get them before early June. If this HSBC card is indeed compromised, the earliest I’ll see a replacement in my hands is sometime in July.
Some of my memorable experiences… I was once in Miami with a credit card in my pocket and someone was making stone purchases with it in Beirut. Then there was the time I was somewhere in Latin America when one of my cards was being used to repeatedly pump gas at a station in Atlanta.
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Over the weekend, I was hacked by yes the RUSSIANS and it has been hell. Very ingenious thieves. I give them that. They parlayed hacking into an old eBay account to get into AMEX, my bank account and so on.
I bet you are a democrat lol – you are obsessed too much with Russians. How do you know that was not Ukrainian (Hilary and Sleepy creepy Joe were involved with Ukraine for election fraud – waiting for more details on that one), or some Nigerian moslems using IP of foreign countries? Or, our friends Chinese? But I still believe you are just obsessed with what demrats tell you.
The IP address was traced to an operation in St. Petersburg RUSSIA. All of the charges and attempts have been made through that party. When you get 400 fraudulent charges made within minutes, you receive over 500 emails all from Russian enterprises in Russian signing you up for services, and you have your bank account drained, please let me know. Until then you may . . . go reproduce yourself.
LMAO, IP can be easily rerouted, do you really think that scammers use their own IP addresses? I am not convinced that that were Russians, and not Nigerians or Somalians or Pakistani for that matter. Demrats have fake news for you, stop watching too much CNN.
Actually nobody cares if LHAMEX is convinced or not. Simply put, GR Downtown is simply relaying his experience and what he knows as fact that is associated with this particular blog. LHAMEX simply decides it needed to have his right wing agenda added to the story and nobody GAF. As GR appropriately stated: “go reproduce yourself”.
Another leftys here, hello you, too.
It is one thing to state that he was hacked, and another is in a way he put it like “OMFG, and you know, that were Russians!”. Creepy that you leftist don`t have any brain cells and only repeat that CNN tells you. And what eBay has to do with that, if payments go through PayPal (at least smart ones use that method until eBay implements its own). Simply pathetic. And don`t reproduce yourself. Please.
This post (from LHAMEX) needs to be deleted. No need for the political crap.. no matter which side of aisle/fence/street you are on.
Mind your own business if you can`t contribute anything decent to this subject. You too, watching too much CNN – behave like that only you can have an opinion. NOPE.
AGREED. TAKE IT DOWN!
Watch out for phishing email. Don’t click on the link in the email. Just check your statement and change password if there is any.