From: TSG (tglasseyearthlink.net)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2009 - 21:49:19 CST

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Henry Brown wrote:
> From the Boston Globe ...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7r6zom
>
> or drill down from http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/
>
Henry - its much much WORSE THAN THAT. Only idiots do the .25c charges
to the accounts because when the Banks actually lose money they react.
If a zero-cent charge is made against the account that will tell you
whether the account is open or not. I in fact just got a record from a
corporate card that had charges against it from Singapore to Netflix for
0c and finally I got this subscription acceptance notice from Gevalia
and a 14$ charge against that card.

The Gevalia test-charges were made for about a week prior to the crook's
actually charging real money on the account. There were three of the
test charges...

The fact that these zero-cent charges were made from a foreign country
should have triggered any number of bells and alarms IMHO but hey, what
can I say.
>
> Mysterious credit card charge may have hit millions of users
>
> Several Internet complaint boards are filled with comments from credit
> card customers from coast to coast who have noticed a mysterious charge
> for about 25 cents on their statements.
>
> The charge shows up on statements as coming from "Adele Services" in
> Melville, N.Y. There is no business by that name listed in Melville, or
> registered to any business anywhere in New York, for that matter.
>
> Two theories of what is going on have advanced on message boards and
> among consumer advocates: Someone is trying to find out whether an
> illegally obtained credit card number will work before making a bigger
> charge, or they're trying to rip off tiny amounts from tons of people.
>
> The latter theory has more credibility at the moment. The Better
> Business Bureau in Louisville reports that, at least so far, those who
> have been hit with the small charge have yet to get slammed with a
> bigger charge. The bureau speculates that the number of possible victims
> could be in the millions.
>
> It's not clear how the numbers got in the hands of the people making the
> charge, but consumer advocates say it is most likely through either a
> data theft or someone using a computer to generate numbers.
>
> ...
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