Fraudulent charge on credit card
Complaint
David Bach
Country: United States
I noticed a charge on my credit card that I had not recorded in Quicken. I checked receipts and couldn't find such a charge. And I didn't remember the name of the company. And I knew I hadn't made an online purchase on that date. I had the charge ($2.95) cancelled. Fortunately, I carefully track every financial transaction.
Comments
Close that account number, or you may get additional fraudulent charges.
http://phoneowner.info/Number.aspx/4024086643
as another new "front company" of the on-going criminal "ebook/web template" small charges fraud enterprise.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19620593-Ebo ... Pluto~start=380
They are part of this criminal enterprise, and make their fraudulent charges under many names.
https://complaintwire.org/Complaint.aspx/hTrxdC09zQAyoQjKHEbDiQ
Dispute all fraudulent charges with your bank, and close the account immediately. Follow up with a written dispute to your bank.
Since these sites allow posting of complaints tied to phone numbers, typically due to illegal telemarketing activity violating the Do Not Call list, they have also served as forums for comparing notes on fraudulent credit card and bank account charges, which typically show a phone number associated with the fraudulent charge.
Although some illegal telemarketer *might* try a DDoS attack, more likely they would avoid such activity since it would focus federal interest in them faster than the reported Do Not Call violations themselves. Illegal telemarketers more often claim an alleged (usually bogus) prior contact or request by the consumer, to claim that their cold calls are "legal".
The use of a DDoS attack may thus indicate NO connection to any telemarketer, but still a desire by some party to deny access to information available on these sites to consumers. A DDoS attack may also point toward an overseas source who feels safe from a U.S.-based law enforcement response, consistent with the overseas origin of this particular fraud.
The recent DDoS attacks *might* be aimed at interferring with reporting of fraudulent charge activity associated with particular phone numbers and front "companies", perhaps indicating that the more coordinated consumer complaints made possible by comparing notes has had an effect in getting more effective bank responses to fraud complaints, and may be putting some fronts out of business.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19620593-Ebo ... Pluto~start=380
BTW, Google was convicted and fined, but the fine was a pittance.
"DDoS Attacks Target 800Notes.com
13 Jun 2008
Since 6am Tuesday, June 10th 800Notes.com has been under a large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The website is targeted by hackers that use automated programs to try to jam the site with bogus requests. We estimate that they use several thousand computers from which they make several thousand requests per second.
As a result 800Notes.com was unavailable during the first 36 hours. We took measures to filter traffic and although, the DDoS still continues, we have it under complete control and do not expect any downtime.
We’ve contacted FBI to help us track who is responsible for the attack."
http://www.callferret.com/
"CallFerret is currently receiving a denial of service (DDOS) attack
The attack (thousands of hijacked computers trying to access the site constantly so as to block your visits) is related to our content against several of the unethical and unlawful debt collectors discussed on the site who would like to prevent you from reading about their activities. We apologize if the site is slow or unavailable during this process. Keep updated on the status at CallFerret Updates. It's a good day.... Long live free speech =) "
When I called it, I got a recording that asked me to leave a message (I didn't). I called my credit card company and cancelled my card.
The charge is obviously fraudulent. It's just infuriating.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19620593-Ebo ... Pluto~start=400
https://800notes.com/articles/News.aspx/Lvz7S11WjQCaCgjKqPx8Ag
"Credit Card Thieves Trying to Hide Their Trails
30 Jun 2008
We have recently discovered that many phone numbers, reported to be connected with unauthorized charges, are being targeted by spammers, who come to the website and make unrelated postings to the discussion threads.
At first it didn’t make any sense, we would see a thread where almost every user was reporting something completely different than all the others. Some said that the number belongs to a collection agency, some claimed that a telemarketer calls from it, others reported that the number belongs to a newspaper subscription service.
After a while a pattern emerged, all o f these threads had one thing in common: “true” users were reporting unauthorized charges while other postings were made by bots.
We started to monitor the threads and discovered that someone has been spamming these particular discussions. It seems they do it for one purpose: to confuse the audience and keep it off track.
In many cases they even create a discussion thread for a particular number well in advance before any fraudulent charges are noticed and reported. They then spam it with unrelated postings. Like, for example, in this thread the first posting was made on Feb 16th2008, and then only on March 5th users started reporting strange transactions (we didn't remove the 'bot' postings for demonstration purposes and will clean it up shortly).
We are now building the list of the phone numbers that match this pattern and so far have 60 phone numbers responsible for fraudulent charges. All the numbers are from 888, 877, 866, and 800 area code.
The fraudulent charges are placed using the following company names:'Link Services', 'Link Group', 'Source Limited', 'System Development', 'HBS', 'Electronic Business Resources', 'Image company', 'World Wide Services', 'World Trade', 'ICS Services', 'Homebase', 'Home Port', 'DEN Enterprises', 'EST Company', 'BEI', 'Site Services', 'Search Services', 'ESTA', 'SENSATE TECHNOLOGY', 'Market Billing', 'MCA Templates', 'Web Templates', Will Services, 'Office Services', 'Terra', 'World Development', 'UNITED SERVICES', 'SITE DEVELPOMENT', 'ALS', 'Mera', 'Search Management', 'ONLINE GROUP', and 'ACM'.
We are looking into ways to prevent them from posting. If you find a thread with the pattern described above, please use the 'Report Abuse' button to alert us.
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"Ebook scams" typically involve fraudulent charges made to people's accounts with no actual contact by the victim with the scammer, and no real product offered for sale. They generally have a website to create the appearance of a company offering an intangible non-physical "product", typically "ebooks", "web templates", "ring tones", etc. as a tactic to appear legitimate to banks investigating complaints so that they can play innocent and claim either that the fraudulent charge must have been a mistake, or that someone must have used a stolen credit card.
The other pattern common to this operation is that many of the scam websites can be linked due to similar look and feel, or similar wording, as they establish many front companies and websites to spread the complaints and evade investigation and prosecution.
In the meantime, upon finding numerous complaints in several forums I have filed a complaint with my state attorney general, the Nebraska attorney general (where this company's phone number is originating from) and the Internet Crime Complaint website.
I will be back on the phone with my bank as soon as this hard hits my account to have it reversed.
In addition, I too have tried contacting this number and only receive a voicemail providing a mailbox #, no name or company name.