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Jason Nadal

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Jason Nadal is an asp.net developer, dabbling in winforms from time to time.
RE: Credit Card Fraud Posted: Jun 28, 2004 5:38 PM
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Things like this are all too common these days, and it seems that AOL is the usual first false charge. I wonder if this is really a matter of stealing card information, or rather if the card numbers are being randomly generated by a number generator or something? You would think there would be more protection for things like this, but social engineering is tough to protect against.

My wife was hit by credit card fraud last week - somehow, someone managed to get her credit card number and used it to make charges to

  • AOL - setting up an email account in my wife's name that even used our actual address, phone number etc.

After a call to the credit card company, my wife's card was quickly blocked and the illegal charges were refunded to us, but despite the fact that we did not lose any money, things like this do make you wonder how secure credit cards really are, especially when used on-line.

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