Ever have a credit card number stolen???
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Well, this is not cool! sorry to hear everybody's issues. I just ordered from AHB 2 days ago and am not gonna wait for that call and just canceled my card tonight! Fraud is BAD.
Hope all works out for everyone.
Hope all works out for everyone.
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Question for everyone....
Is AHS the only place you've used your card on-line in the last ~3 weeks?? I see a lot of "hey, I ordered from AHS awhile ago and got hit the other day."
It's my experience that when they get your card #, they hit you quick. I think we all should be looking for purchases made closer to ~2/7/11, not these various "I ordered from AHS once" type things....
By all means, if your only purchase is from AHS, then yes; that should be a concern, but my guess is most people are making dozens of on-line purchases a month, and the only "connection" to AHS is because this is a beer forum.
I hope I'm right, but will gladly eat crow if I'm wrong...
Is AHS the only place you've used your card on-line in the last ~3 weeks?? I see a lot of "hey, I ordered from AHS awhile ago and got hit the other day."
It's my experience that when they get your card #, they hit you quick. I think we all should be looking for purchases made closer to ~2/7/11, not these various "I ordered from AHS once" type things....
By all means, if your only purchase is from AHS, then yes; that should be a concern, but my guess is most people are making dozens of on-line purchases a month, and the only "connection" to AHS is because this is a beer forum.
I hope I'm right, but will gladly eat crow if I'm wrong...
rustbucket
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yah, due to mine was a debit card, im prob out 500 dollars (that an now im on the edge of being broke) fml!
crackhead7
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I had this call about fraud charges Monday. Not related to AHBS but a purchased I made form an E cigerette company. seems to me that this is so much more common then anyone really thinks. Luckly, my bank caught it and denied the $300 change, just had to challege 2 charges for $4.44. Just a royal PIA to get it cleared up.
rustbucket
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the only place that i hvae used my card in the past 3 weeks has been in person , such as home depot and other stores. the only online i have used was rebel brewing and austin
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There are those swipe fraud things also; so don't assume "in person" transactions are any safer than on-line....
I'm not picking on you; but just using you as an example: so, you've used your cared in the past 3 weeks at homedepot, other stores, Rebel, and AHS - and AHS is where the weak link is?
Bishop916
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I got hit last year, think it was a shifty gas station; you can try to contact your bank and dispute the charges, they will make you fill out a form and get the money back to you in about a week or so...
ChshreCat
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You haven't bought from AHS in the last few weeks?
AHS is the only place I used that card ONLINE, but not the only place I have used that card since using it at AHS. It's entirely possible that my favourite waiter at the local tex-mex skimmed it or the cashier at Popeyes drivethru. I am starting to think, though, that as many are turning up here in a short period, the AHS link is starting to look more and more likely.
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I thought so too, but I started to try and compile the actual facts based on the three threads (date purchased from AHS, and when "hacked"), and it's all over the board....the vast majority don't have a AHS purchase date, just a fraud date of 2/7/11.
And like many have pointed out - one or two say "I ordered from AHS and have been hacked" translates to "I've been hacked and I ordered from AHS, so it must be AHS."
Again, not saying that there isn't a connection, but I think the whole picture of how bad CC fraud is has been exposed here in the last couple of days....
I just checked my account, and sure-as-hell, a charge that neither me, nor my wife can can verify. It's at the top of the list as a Pre-auth for $29.99.
Granted, AHS is not the only place I've used the card, but I keep a close eye on my account (checking through all the charges at least weekly) and have never come across this. There's just too many folks with this popping up and an order from AHS at the same time. I'm sure they are not the nefarious ones, but I'm curious where it's coming from.
Oh, and I'm one of those idiots using my debit card because the only thing I borrow money for is my mortgage. My charge looks like this:
"MEMO PREAUTHORIZATION lalibco.com 6001 lalibco.com 6001 Portugal PT "
Does that look familiar to anyone?
Granted, AHS is not the only place I've used the card, but I keep a close eye on my account (checking through all the charges at least weekly) and have never come across this. There's just too many folks with this popping up and an order from AHS at the same time. I'm sure they are not the nefarious ones, but I'm curious where it's coming from.
Oh, and I'm one of those idiots using my debit card because the only thing I borrow money for is my mortgage. My charge looks like this:
"MEMO PREAUTHORIZATION lalibco.com 6001 lalibco.com 6001 Portugal PT "
Does that look familiar to anyone?
rustbucket
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Yeah, my card, i have used the same over and over again at the same places with the same people for the most part. i dont believe it would be those due to not having it happen before.
02/09/2011 DTV*DIRECTV HARDWARE -$495.32
02/09/2011 LINDA M GROUNDS PH D -$3.97
Forgive me for ranting, but im just royally "P*$$ed" because if i don't get my money replaced, that is a lot of money for me to be out of....
Sadly I love AHS but from hearing more than one person say something about it within just a couple days (more than just a couple a substantial amount) and we all have nothing in common but from ordering from AHS, the fault has to be somewhere around that, not saying it AHS directly but somewhere linked to them.
02/09/2011 DTV*DIRECTV HARDWARE -$495.32
02/09/2011 LINDA M GROUNDS PH D -$3.97
Forgive me for ranting, but im just royally "P*$$ed" because if i don't get my money replaced, that is a lot of money for me to be out of....
Sadly I love AHS but from hearing more than one person say something about it within just a couple days (more than just a couple a substantial amount) and we all have nothing in common but from ordering from AHS, the fault has to be somewhere around that, not saying it AHS directly but somewhere linked to them.
I appreciate your point-of-view for sure. I just haven't seen any posts saying, "my card was hacked, but I haven't ordered from AHS. I did order from NB, though...". If those start showing up, then we'll be looking in a different direction.
That said, I have no reason to believe there's a direct issue with AHS, and would absolutely hate to be in their shoes right now trying to answer for something that may affect their business, but they had nothing to do with.
Wow, each of these people so far have had a recent order from AHS? I think they may want to do some internal investigating to be on the safe side.
My experience with this is the majority of the time it's an inside job from where you are ordering from or from the credit card company. People take the numbers, write them down, and sell them for people to use or charge themselves. This could happen in a bar, restaurant, online, anywhere you place your card info. I am SUPER careful with my card info and one time I got hit on my Chase credit card but it was caught instantly since a florist called asking me a question about "my order". I told them it wasn't me, cancel it, and I'm calling my card company now. They closed the account and sent me another card. Two months later it happened again. That said to me that there was someone inside of Chase stealing numbers. I canceled my account after that incident and told them that they have someone on the inside selling/using numbers. Luckily both times I caught it quick and didn't have to pay a dime. Second time I caught it cause I was checking my account frequently.
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My experience with this is the majority of the time it's an inside job from where you are ordering from or from the credit card company. People take the numbers, write them down, and sell them for people to use or charge themselves. This could happen in a bar, restaurant, online, anywhere you place your card info. I am SUPER careful with my card info and one time I got hit on my Chase credit card but it was caught instantly since a florist called asking me a question about "my order". I told them it wasn't me, cancel it, and I'm calling my card company now. They closed the account and sent me another card. Two months later it happened again. That said to me that there was someone inside of Chase stealing numbers. I canceled my account after that incident and told them that they have someone on the inside selling/using numbers. Luckily both times I caught it quick and didn't have to pay a dime. Second time I caught it cause I was checking my account frequently.
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I appreciate your point-of-view for sure. I just haven't seen any posts saying, "my card was hacked, but I haven't ordered from AHS. I did order from NB, though...". If those start showing up, then we'll be looking in a different direction.
That said, I have no reason to believe there's a direct issue with AHS, and would absolutely hate to be in their shoes right now trying to answer for something that may affect their business, but they had nothing to do with.
I agree with you completely.
I guess my point is that right now, anyone on HBT who 1) has their CC hacked and 2) has ordered from AHS in the "last few weeks" is ultimately assuming the problem is with AHS.
It may be that. It may not. I just am trying to prevent a false herd mentality....
But again, I agree 100% with your post. If it looks like a duck....
But let's not be so quick to kill the duck.
count_dookie
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My order was on 1/29/11, but if they all did happen on 2/7 then something has to be up.
I won't stop ordering from AHS because of this, I simply canceled my card.
Luckily I use an American Express as it provides a bit of another layer of protection that a Visa Debit or MasterCard Debit card don't.
I have given AHS a ton of my money, and will continue to do so despite all this.
Luckily I use an American Express as it provides a bit of another layer of protection that a Visa Debit or MasterCard Debit card don't.
I have given AHS a ton of my money, and will continue to do so despite all this.
All 9 of the fraudulent charges on my card are from 2/6 and 2/7.
count_dookie
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do you know where the charges were to?
The bank wouldn't tell me all of them, but one was to Dicks Sporting Goods, and one was to Ebookers.com
Agreed!
I'm searching right now to find if there's any nationwide cc hack issues occurring, outside of our little circle here..
bovineblitz
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Even if you have an adequately protected wireless network it can be broken with some time and effort.
Another question to me would be did someone/thing take the credit card information a while back and not bring it out till now? For example, I've read many people's credit cards and cvc numbers a few years back due to working retail, and if I were unscrupulous enough to write them down, I could certainly have waited to try using it. Was there an old database compromise where the numbers have been floating out there, waiting for this batch to be used? Or is it something that happened recently
count_dookie
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mine were on CCBilleu.com it seems like its a mix of known scam sites and random online retail sites
Crash1040
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I hate my first post to be about this cause I'm usually just a lurker who knows how to search a forum for answers. But Me too.
Two recent AHS purchases and the bank blocked the fraudulent reg.repair.com attempt for $79 only after letting a $1.39 charge hit. It's silly but I am totally going to file a claim to get my $1.39 back.
And for the record my next order will still be from AHS. I think my personal expierencrs and AHS's long standing reputation should speak for itself. Don't blame AHS for a world full of thieves and cheats. It could have happened to anyone online and any online retailer
Does anyone here really think there's any kind of mal-intent involved from Forest. Give me a break. Witchhunt somewhere else.
Two recent AHS purchases and the bank blocked the fraudulent reg.repair.com attempt for $79 only after letting a $1.39 charge hit. It's silly but I am totally going to file a claim to get my $1.39 back.
And for the record my next order will still be from AHS. I think my personal expierencrs and AHS's long standing reputation should speak for itself. Don't blame AHS for a world full of thieves and cheats. It could have happened to anyone online and any online retailer
Does anyone here really think there's any kind of mal-intent involved from Forest. Give me a break. Witchhunt somewhere else.
rustbucket
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mine was these, not to sure where or what exaclty
these are right from my bank statement
02/09/2011 DTV*DIRECTV HARDWARE -$495.32
02/09/2011 LINDA M GROUNDS PH D -$3.97
these are right from my bank statement
02/09/2011 DTV*DIRECTV HARDWARE -$495.32
02/09/2011 LINDA M GROUNDS PH D -$3.97
I too had my card hacked last week but my facts were a little bit different.
I have never ordered from AHS but my last online purchase was for a brew your own subscription and then someone tried to use my card for something like a $9,000 purchase at a wine store (I think a homebrew store) in Indiana.
It could be completely unrelated but figured I'd add my experiences in case it helps at all.
I have never ordered from AHS but my last online purchase was for a brew your own subscription and then someone tried to use my card for something like a $9,000 purchase at a wine store (I think a homebrew store) in Indiana.
It could be completely unrelated but figured I'd add my experiences in case it helps at all.
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