Having ordered some woodworking tools and books, DVDs and CDs from
Amazon.com and have been happy with them until now. Not having any
transaction with them for a year now we got a bogus charge for over a $100
from Amazon.com on the credit card and have no clue as to what that was.
Amazon.com promised to get back with us but that was last month! We called
Amazon.com again last week and still no word. It's also strange on the
credit card end they either don't know or won't tell what that charge was
but we had a payment stop nonetheless. Do retailers keep your credit card
number and personal information forever and how safe is it in their hands?
Wanted to order some more tools and stuff from Amazon.com but not very
comfortable in doing so until the bogus charge is resolved.
"Jack" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Having ordered some woodworking tools and books, DVDs and CDs from
> Amazon.com and have been happy with them until now. Not having any
> transaction with them for a year now we got a bogus charge for over a $100
> from Amazon.com on the credit card and have no clue as to what that was.
> Amazon.com promised to get back with us but that was last month! We called
> Amazon.com again last week and still no word. It's also strange on the
> credit card end they either don't know or won't tell what that charge was
> but we had a payment stop nonetheless. Do retailers keep your credit card
> number and personal information forever and how safe is it in their hands?
> Wanted to order some more tools and stuff from Amazon.com but not very
> comfortable in doing so until the bogus charge is resolved.
My credit card company has a feature that allows you to go online to their
web site and generate a one-time use number that optionally has a dollar
limit. That way, I don't worry if someone gets the number after the fact
because it's worthless. It has been demonstrated time and again that this
information is unsafe in the hands of retailers, schools, etc.
todd
Jack wrote:
> Having ordered some woodworking tools and books, DVDs and CDs from
> Amazon.com and have been happy with them until now. Not having any
> transaction with them for a year now we got a bogus charge for over a $100
> from Amazon.com on the credit card and have no clue as to what that was.
> Amazon.com promised to get back with us but that was last month! We called
> Amazon.com again last week and still no word. It's also strange on the
> credit card end they either don't know or won't tell what that charge was
> but we had a payment stop nonetheless. Do retailers keep your credit card
> number and personal information forever and how safe is it in their hands?
> Wanted to order some more tools and stuff from Amazon.com but not very
> comfortable in doing so until the bogus charge is resolved.
I have never had this problem with Amazon.
I did have some fraudulent charges against my checking account, which I
had reversed successfully. Identity theft is rampant.
Which credit card was it?
If it's the Amazon card, that is administered by Chas and any fraud
should be reported to them.
Jack wrote:
> Having ordered ... from
> Amazon.com and have been happy with them until now.
> ... now we got a bogus charge for over a $100
> from Amazon.com on the credit card and have no clue as to what that was.
> Amazon.com promised to get back with us but that was last month! We called
> Amazon.com again last week and still no word. It's also strange on the
> credit card end they either don't know or won't tell what that charge was
> but we had a payment stop nonetheless.
Good.
> Do retailers keep your credit card
> number and personal information forever and how safe is it in their hands?
Some do, some do not. A big outfit that does routine backups of their
database may not have any reliable way to permanently remove your
records from their backup media though they _should_ be able to
reliably
keep it offline.
> Wanted to order some more tools and stuff from Amazon.com but not very
> comfortable in doing so until the bogus charge is resolved.
It sounds like maybe your amazon account was hacked. That could be
the result of poor security at either end of the transaction. E.g.
either their
computers or yours.
You have not, by any chance, replied to any emails _putatively_ from
Amazon that requested to confirm your account or credit card
information,
have you? If so it was a 'phish', an email sent by someone who was not
amazon in an attempt to get your account information.
If you did get anything like that, be sure to save it and forward it
with headers
to Amazon. An SMTP savvy person can read those headers to determine
where it really came from, though usually spammers and phishers host
with
or send through trojaned machines on Cable networks, MCI or other ISPs
who
are uncooperative on abuse issues.
--
FF
Jack wrote:
> Having ordered some woodworking tools and books, DVDs and CDs from
> Amazon.com and have been happy with them until now. Not having any
> transaction with them for a year now we got a bogus charge for over a $100
> from Amazon.com on the credit card and have no clue as to what that was.
> Amazon.com promised to get back with us but that was last month! We called
> Amazon.com again last week and still no word. It's also strange on the
> credit card end they either don't know or won't tell what that charge was
> but we had a payment stop nonetheless. Do retailers keep your credit card
> number and personal information forever and how safe is it in their hands?
> Wanted to order some more tools and stuff from Amazon.com but not very
> comfortable in doing so until the bogus charge is resolved.
>
>
contact your credit card company to dispute the charge.
"B a r r y" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> todd wrote:
>>
>> My credit card company has a feature that allows you to go online to
>> their
>> web site and generate a one-time use number that optionally has a dollar
>> limit.
>
> Very cool.
>
> Care to share the name of the issuer?
>
> Thanks!
Citibank