CC Fraud on Amazon?

Andy100 · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:07

Anyone every had their cc details ripped from Amazon?

I've been back in the UK 2 weeks and only used my cc once to buy an 8 quid Kindle for iphone book off Amazon.co.uk. I haven't even taken my card out of the house as I brought enough cash for the trip.

Checked my account today and in the last 2 days (which is when I bought the book) 3000 quid has been siphoned from the card in 500 quid transactions in London.

What's wrong with this thieving pos country? 5 years I've been in Australia and nothing like this has ever happened, I'm back for 2 minutes and this happens...

Sorry for the vent but this really annoys me. You'd think you should be able to trust a company like Amazon.

'Wes · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:20

Just went to check my account because you scared the **** out of me, but no, mines fine.

MrMoonX · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:21

errr australia is full of criminals!

Rotty · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:22

MrMoonX said:
errr australia is full of criminals!

Ahleckz · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:22

Amazon won't have taken it, your computer will be compromised with a logger or the like. Probably got from an 'adult service' website that you visited.

Speirs · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:22

Could be that the pc you used to do said transaction is infected with some keylogger etc prog.
That is how they have most probably done it.
Just a suggestion.

Andy100 · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:22

But they're not smart enough to commit cc fraud!

I'm pretty sure I don't have a keylogger on my pc. It's a work laptop and I'm the CIO of the company. I've never used it for dodgy stuff and it's got a fully up to date virus and malware scanner.

Speirs · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:23

Ahleckz said:
Amazon won't have taken it, your computer will be compromised with a logger or the like. Probably got from an 'adult service' website that you visited.

Beat me to it.

Reeve · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:23

'Wes said:
Just went to check my account because you scared the **** out of me, but no, mines fine.

Same, i've got a bit too much cash floating around in my current account atm. Things like this are a good reminder for me to move it as the amount the op has just lost would be nearly 3 months wages for me. I wouldnt be very happy.........

Sorry to hear you lost that much, i hope you can get it all back.

DampCat · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:24

Ahleckz said:
Probably got from an 'adult service' website that you visited.

Or, you know, ANY website from ANY genre of information.

Clum · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:30

DampCat said:
Or, you know, ANY website from ANY genre of information.

Probably midget porn though.

SkeeterUK · 14 Jan 2010 at 19:48

Human sheep porn

doopydug · 14 Jan 2010 at 23:50

It isn't Amazon - they don't even see your card details

Volcs · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:09

doopydug said:
It isn't Amazon - they don't even see your card details

Fo real. Any company that size will be PCI compliant.

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss.shtml

Craig321 · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:13

Andy100 said:
Anyone every had their cc details ripped from Amazon?

I've been back in the UK 2 weeks and only used my cc once to buy an 8 quid Kindle for iphone book off Amazon.co.uk. I haven't even taken my card out of the house as I brought enough cash for the trip.

Checked my account today and in the last 2 days (which is when I bought the book) 3000 quid has been siphoned from the card in 500 quid transactions in London.

What's wrong with this thieving pos country? 5 years I've been in Australia and nothing like this has ever happened, I'm back for 2 minutes and this happens...

Sorry for the vent but this really annoys me. You'd think you should be able to trust a company like Amazon.

Sorry, but pebcak. You probably have a key logger or spyware. The amount of people that are infected and think they're safe because they have "anti-virus" software and are "up-to-date" is quite unbelievable.

King85 · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:18

Reeve said:
Same, i've got a bit too much cash floating around in my current account atm. Things like this are a good reminder for me to move it as the amount the op has just lost would be nearly 3 months wages for me. I wouldnt be very happy.........

Sorry to hear you lost that much, i hope you can get it all back.

If it's a cc he should be covered for all of tbf

A2Z · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:20

Yes, exact same thing happened to me just before Christmas.

CC was used to order loads of things...last things I purchased using it were from Amazon and Amazon Marketplace.

Phoned up natwest and got it all refunded within 2 days though

ViperZS · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:30

might it just be coincidence that this happened around the time of you using Amazon?

Can you not think of any other instance where you have used it or it might have been cloned?

Andy100 · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:34

I've spoken to the fraud department of the bank who confirmed that this is not an isolated incident with Amazon. They are investigating quite a few similar cases that have been reported over Christmas.

Andy100 · 15 Jan 2010 at 00:37

ViperZS said:
might it just be coincidence that this happened around the time of you using Amazon?

Can you not think of any other instance where you have used it or it might have been cloned?

I haven't even taken my card outside. I used it to sign up to one click on Amazon through my iPhone and am certain this is where the problem arose. (as has now been confirmed by the bank)