AMEX Card Hacked Just Now

BobC

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I was finishing up breakfast with the family when I started getting text messages from AMEX asking me to verify charges on my card, from an ISP, something called surfshark.com. and a couple more businesses. Uh-oh. I've been hacked again. This is the third time it's happened over the years.

I went downstairs to the computer and also had four emails from AMEX asking me to verify the charges. I immediately called them and closed down the account. Fortunately, for AMEX, they were all for small amounts of money, for which I was not responsible.

The moral of the story is, make sure you have instant notification from your credit card providers to put these POS hackers out of business immediately.
 
I was finishing up breakfast with the family when I started getting text messages from AMEX asking me to verify charges on my card, from an ISP, something called surfshark.com. and a couple more businesses. Uh-oh. I've been hacked again. This is the third time it's happened over the years.

I went downstairs to the computer and also had four emails from AMEX asking me to verify the charges. I immediately called them and closed down the account. Fortunately, for AMEX, they were all for small amounts of money, for which I was not responsible.

The moral of the story is, make sure you have instant notification from your credit card providers to put these POS hackers out of business immediately.
A coworker was hacked with charges from around the country yesterday!. Damn!.
 
My Internet provider had a data breach last year, and I have to monitor everything constantly. It's very frustrating.
 
I've had my Mastercard and Visa Card hacked over the last few years - unfortunately I think its a sign of the times. Hackers get more and more clever!
 
I was finishing up breakfast with the family when I started getting text messages from AMEX asking me to verify charges on my card, from an ISP, something called surfshark.com. and a couple more businesses. Uh-oh. I've been hacked again. This is the third time it's happened over the years.

I went downstairs to the computer and also had four emails from AMEX asking me to verify the charges. I immediately called them and closed down the account. Fortunately, for AMEX, they were all for small amounts of money, for which I was not responsible.

The moral of the story is, make sure you have instant notification from your credit card providers to put these POS hackers out of business immediately.

those turds will start with small charges to test the cards security, and then hit with big ones later on...

I am very lucky to be with a credit union whose app allows me to "turn off" my own card if I get fraudulent charges...and their system notifies me pretty quickly. In fact, I often get fraud notices if it is me using the card. Especially if I use it out of town, or at a business I don't frequent very often.

it then allows me to turn it back on after I deem that it is safe. I tend to leave it "off" if i know I am not going to use it for long periods of time
 
Just got my visa recently. Took a week to get a new card.

I also have my credit reports locked so at least they can’t open new accounts. Not a bad idea.
 
Some years ago, after my wife’s employer was hacked, a scammer filed a fake income tax return in our name. Thankfully the IRS flagged it and notified us. Now each year they send us a PIN number to use when filing our returns. No PIN on our return and it’s bounced back. You can request one to prevent ID tax theft…


(I should add that if your IRS account is compromised, it’s not going to be resolved as easily as a credit card issue. Even with them catching it, it was a year or so of messiness if I remember correctly.)
 
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I just called AMEX with a question, and discovered that the new card they were mailing to me was already hacked! I haven't even gotten it yet!

How do these scammers do it?

The representative closed that account, and they are Fed Exing me a another one tomorrow.
 
I've had my Mastercard and Visa Card hacked over the last few years - unfortunately I think its a sign of the times. Hackers get more and more clever!
The issue is that the companies selling and using our financial transaction systems don't want to pay for security...so they make it the consumers 'fault' when it is their own.

We need to keep the companies participating in 'fraud by accepting fraudulent identity claims' responsible....not allowing them to take advantage of the 'ease of credit access to make a sale' while offloading the cost for security to the consumer.
 
The issue is that the companies selling and using our financial transaction systems don't want to pay for security...so they make it the consumers 'fault' when it is their own.

We need to keep the companies participating in 'fraud by accepting fraudulent identity claims' responsible....not allowing them to take advantage of the 'ease of credit access to make a sale' while offloading the cost for security to the consumer.

I sort of do this by not participating

I only have one credit card thought my credit union...a Visa, but I rarely use it
 
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