Credit Card Fraud, coincidence?

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powerontap

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 Montreal
Just ordered some leather dye from liquidleather.com a few days ago and used my Amex to pay online.

The very next day, I get a call from Amex that someone had used my card to buy tickets on Scandinavian Airlines! :o They cancelled the card of course and declined the ticket purchase, so I'm OK.

I know that Liquid Leather has been in business for many years, but it does make one wonder how secure their online store really is...if it's form that transaction at all.
 
It's hard to tell where your card may have been cloned or the details stolen from. It would be worth tracking back on the last couple of month's usage. It's not uncommon that it's cloned at a restaurant or some place where your card may go out of site. (A waiter takes it to the machine instead of the machine coming to you etc)

If you're fairly sure it may have been liquid leather, drop them a courtesy note as they'll want to know if their online transaction system has been compromised.
 
I had my card cloned a few years ago - card company said most likely was a petrol station as was rife in southampton at that time
 
Funny thing is that I live in Montreal and the fraud was done in Europe. I know it still could of been cloned months ago, just weird it happens from a business I purchase from abroad and then used on the same continent the very next day for fraud...
 
Stuart Truman said:
If you're fairly sure it may have been liquid leather, drop them a courtesy note as they'll want to know if their online transaction system has been compromised.
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Good suggestion, I will let them know.
 
My ex boss had her (Lloyds) card cloned when she went to Oz....she is certain it was the dirty little twat in the duty free shop at KL on the stop over. Got to oz, card declined....purchases made in lingerie shop in US!!!!

My wife doesnt check her bank statements very often but once she noticed d/d payments to Amex - she didnt even an amex card! Turned out the bank had mis applied the direct debit, so not amex fault, but s**t happens!
 
powerontap said:
Funny thing is that I live in Montreal and the fraud was done in Europe. I know it still could of been cloned months ago, just weird it happens from a business I purchase from abroad and then used on the same continent the very next day for fraud...
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a few weeks back i bought an item from eurocarparts.com (a big motor factors over here). the next morning, i was woken up by a phone call from my bank to tell me there had been transactions on my account which looked suspicious, just after i paid for my item.

turns out some scumbag in columbia had got hold of my card details somehow :o i'm unsure if it was through eurocarparts.com, but as i hardly ever use the card, it seems a massive coincidence that this happened a little while after i had used it.
 
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