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Originally Posted by VayCayMom
Hmmm for the first time ever I used a credit card to make a deposit, hoping to save some of the fees other methods add on, and I had been waiting forever for a Neteller noninstant transaction to fund from the 10th!
I get a call from my card company checking the charges... yes, yes yes.. NO!!! No $5,000 was authorized by me today from some place in Georgia!
Funny thing is it didn't have any real info on the charge as far as the customer service guy could tell.
If I recall correctly, the only two places I registered that card, were Vegas 7 & Splendido. Within hours it had been abused.  |
You should not have been able to do this in the first place, unless the two casinos have been disguising the nature of the transactions.
I doubt the $5000 was a casino deposit at one of these two due to the sheer size of it. Someone may have intercepted your card information earlier, and used it just now. of course, it is possible that the information was lifted from the registration details for the card - there is enough given to an MG casino for it to work in a "card not present" fraud. Even the 3 digit security number can be recorded from the first ever deposit attempt, and some sites still don't bother with this extra check beyond card number & expiry, relying on the fact the correct name & address was used.
A recent news item stated that the new "chip & pin" scheme has reduced fraud by 5% - but it would have been more except for the dramatic increase in online and telephone card fraud, where "chip & pin" is irrelevant.