credit card number stolen
I was in Park Slope for a week and in that time my credit card number was stolen.
Someone in Oregon charged a Macbook to my card in the local Apple store in Portland. I used my card in the following locations Fonda, Home Depot, Baked, Joy Indian Restaurant, Key Food on 5th Ave., Steve's C Town, Astor Wine in Manhattan. Did anyone else who used any of these stores or restaurants have the same problem?
Someone in Oregon charged a Macbook to my card in the local Apple store in Portland. I used my card in the following locations Fonda, Home Depot, Baked, Joy Indian Restaurant, Key Food on 5th Ave., Steve's C Town, Astor Wine in Manhattan. Did anyone else who used any of these stores or restaurants have the same problem?
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Why do you think it happened after visiting one of these stores? Couldn't it have happened via an online vendor? Or maybe somebody had stolen the number already and just happened to use it while you were in PS?
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Anything is possible but I thought it was worth mentioning just in case someone in one of these places is copying cards. You never know!!
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Dude, it was probably Key Foods on 5th ave. I can't prove it, but I am almost certain they were the one's that stole both my card number and my boyfriends. Our charges were for things in florida and that surrounding area, though.
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that was a couple of years ago, right mamacita? I remember about 2 years ago they arrested a cashier at that Key Food because she was stealing money from people's debit cards after they used them to pay for their groceries. But, that was about 2 years ago now.
I shop there all the time (for about the last 10 years) and have never had a problem, though, I make sure to either use self checkout or go to one of the cashiers who have been there for a long time. -
I only use credit there. My credit card people said that my number was probably stolen and sold.. I guess that's a whole nuther racket. Yeah, it was 1 1/2 years ago, but many months after everyone else had reported their incidents. I'm still very dubious about that place, yet! I'm about to head out for groceries there. You can't live in fear
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Subject: Re: credit card number stolen
chachacheech wrote: I was in Park Slope for a week and in that time my credit card number was stolen.
FWIW, I have been using a credit card (not debit card) for years at Baked, Key Food on 5th and Astor Wine (pretty much weekly) and quite often at Home Depot and never had a problem.
Someone in Oregon charged a Macbook to my card in the local Apple store in Portland. I used my card in the following locations Fonda, Home Depot, Baked, Joy Indian Restaurant, Key Food on 5th Ave., Steve's C Town, Astor Wine in Manhattan. Did anyone else who used any of these stores or restaurants have the same problem? -
Yeah, go with your gut. This stuff happens at stores. I used my credit card at a Radio shack in the Village a few years ago and then had some small charges at Radio shack that were not mine and then the used it to charge bigger stuff online.
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My bank rep told me that if they ask you to swipe the card twice, then they are trying to copy the numbers. He also said those bodega atms are compromised and numbers are stolen like crazy once you use them. I avoid them like the plague.
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The only ATMs i ever use are bank ATMs in actual banks. Wouldn't go near an ATM in any other location.
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Mamacita wrote: Dude, it was probably Key Foods on 5th ave. I can't prove it, but I am almost certain they were the one's that stole both my card number and my boyfriends.
I can't believe they stole your boyfriends. Talk about adding insult to injury. -
Subject: Credit Card Stolen at Key Foods cash register
I was at KeyFoods - Montague Street, today and I was returning some bread I bought. The Courtesy Manager took the bread and my receipt, and she placed it
on the first counter near the entry way. She told the cashier to return the bread for me. I went there and the cashier said, I need your credit card. I put the credit card down on the black belt as she was finishing packing the other customer's groceries.
I turned my head for one second and when I turned back my credit card
was gone. She said, where is your credit card. I told her I put it right
here. She said, it's not here. She didn't even try to look for it or see if
it fell.
No one other than the cashi
er was next to me. The customer that was
ahead of me was not close enough to take it.
I insisted the cashier call the manager. He came right away and open
the cabinet underneath the belt. He pulled out a little draw and my
card was not there.
This is just a warning for all to watch your credit card while shopping
at the KeyFoods. How could my card just disappear when I put it down
on the belt for her to take it.
She must of noticed that I turned my head for one second and took advantage of it. I hate to accuse anyone of stealing but it was the most unbelievable
thing that ever happened to me.
Needless to say I cancelled the card immediately since my bank is 2 blocks
away from that particular Keyfood.
Next time I go there, I will use cash (maybe even write my name on the money)
in case they say I didn't give it to them. -
The same people who are stealing credit card numbers and boyfriends are probably stealing apostrophes as well.
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Check your own writing skills first, since your sentence is missing a comma.
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MOD NOTE: this episode of grammer grannies is complete, yes?
Pls keep it on topic. THX! -
Tis the season to steal. My own credit card was compromised last week. I think it happened at a Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, but it could have been anywhere. I had the card when the fake charges hit it. The thief tested the waters at a Mac store for $1 and then tried to bang it for $891 at Fry's Electronics. The CC company caught it right quick. Someone failed to receive their new laptop for Xmas (or whatever it was).
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Subject: Re: Credit Card Stolen at Key Foods cash register
visitingBrooklyn wrote: I was at KeyFoods - Montague Street, today and I was returning some bread I bought. The Courtesy Manager took the bread and my receipt, and she placed it
i would have asked to see the security tape.
on the first counter near the entry way. She told the cashier to return the bread for me. I went there and the cashier said, I need your credit card. I put the credit card down on the black belt as she was finishing packing the other customer's groceries.
I turned my head for one second and when I turned back my credit card
was gone. She said, where is your credit card. I told her I put it right
here. She said, it's not here. She didn't even try to look for it or see if
it fell.
No one other than the cashi er was next to me. The customer that was
ahead of me was not close enough to take it.
I insisted the cashier call the manager. He came right away and open
the cabinet underneath the belt. He pulled out a little draw and my
card was not there.
This is just a warning for all to watch your credit card while shopping
at the KeyFoods. How could my card just disappear when I put it down
on the belt for her to take it.
She must of noticed that I turned my head for one second and took advantage of it. I hate to accuse anyone of stealing but it was the most unbelievable
thing that ever happened to me.
Needless to say I cancelled the card immediately since my bank is 2 blocks
away from that particular Keyfood.
Next time I go there, I will use cash (maybe even write my name on the money)
in case they say I didn't give it to them. -
rockhound wrote: Tis the season to steal. My own credit card was compromised last week.
This just happened to me. Someone had the numbers in the card (including the CCV), but I never lost physical possession of the card. In the last two weeks it was out of my hands only at a 5th Ave restaurant and a store on 5th Ave (other uses were where I swiped the card myself). I got notified by the bank about several suspicious transactions - they were all online, on the same day, and for amounts between $300-$400.
Did you file a police report? I have no financial losses, but I do want to help the bank out if they are interested in pursuing this. -
Really? Key Foods? That's who is behind all this?
The data above certainly supports this notion, however, consider the following:
The reason everyone thinks that Key Food is the culprit is because that's where everyone shops twice a week, every week..... far more frequent than any restaurant, hardware store, or bakery.
I know most people aren't as smart as Julius Orange or even me, but come on. It is far more likely that the card was stolen at some one off place of purchase.. a place you don't go often or ever at all. -
^^ That would be very true DR. In my case, and at that time, I only used my card at 3 places (cash otherwise) Key foods was the only place where I didn't know the owners and employees by name and for many years. But who knows, I'm only talking about my experience (and it was too much of a coincidence that the BF had the same thing happen, same type of charges and locations where it was used, the one similarity was we both shop at KF)
Carry on, none of this is proven fact.. and DR does make a very good point. -
Thanks Mamacita...
Another explanation, perhaps, given your facts is this (and maybe someone who knows more about this can help out here):
They hacked your wireless router. As a student of probabilities I find it highly unlikely that that both your and your BF's card was stolen (from the same place, on different days).... this would suggest some ongoing and persistent theft at Key Foods. I'm not buying it.
It is super easy to get the default passwords to 100's a router types. So, you drive, you hack, you view the surfing history.... look for confirmation pages or purchases.... or hack the cookies with the CC numbers.
As for "where" the purchases we made. well, that means nothing. -
Mamacita wrote: ...and DR does make a very good point.
While DR seems smart, I can only imagine how smart that other guy (who's name is mentioned above, but I shall not mention) is.
...wait, maybe we could view his genius in his prior posts. -
^^ I refuse to entertain this movement. It's just too cold to be making people cry... even on the internets.
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Drunken Revival wrote: ^^ I refuse to entertain this movement. It's just too cold to be making people cry... even on the internets.
So noted.
Perhaps it is now time to tell the story of a not-so-genius coworker I once had.
So, we worked at a department store. I worked stock, and he worked the cash register....
In order to make himself money he would "re-use" the credit card information of prior customers whenever someone paid with cash for a cheap, likely not be returned item (example of an ideal canditate: a man buying jeans and socks)
This ploy was carried out by stating to the customer that "this register was out of customer receipts. It will take me about 15 min to get on to a new register. Is it ok if you don't get a receipt?". (this was back in the day when registers kept one copy of the receipt for the store, and were NOT networked to any computer system). The customer would, of course, say "sure".
Anyway, by doing this, his register would balance at the end of the shift and he would end up with cash to supplement the minimum wage we earned. Because we were both only summer employees, by the time the customers who paid credit cards complained that their card card had been used several times instead of just once, he was long gone.
To my knowledge, he was never caught ...as evidenced by his admission to the Army, and subsequent ability to carry arms once we graduated from high school a mere 9 months later.
Although cash registers have improved, the cleverness of minimum wage workers at CVS may be keeping pace. ...My coworker was about as smart as a rock.
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