So this morning i receive a phone call at around 10am. It is some representative from PNC bank (I hold an account there which i use to receive my schools wage and some personal spending money). She calls me to confirm a few odd transactions on my account. I was stunned!!!
Apparently, $57.00 was charged to my account for some online website template company(it came through as " VISA - LNR* FTD-FLASH.COM " ). Now normally, this type of transaction wouldn't have raised any suspicions (unless it is a common fraud thingy that pops up warnings in VISA's systems..) because i make online purchases. The thing is that it overdue my account. Now that is something that should put some alarms up because I've never (for the 5 yrs ive had the account) over drawn my account.
Here's the kicker. I haven't given my information to any online company lately. Other than paypal and a few local online stores, no one has my CC information. This leads me to believe that i must have been a victim of fraud from somewhere where I have paid using my card in person. The NERVE of some people to try and STEAL things from others.
I will watch my account very closely from now on. I've had MUCH faith in the people handling my information in the past, but NOW I'm inclined to be a lot more cautious. Maybe purchasing a prepaid ELECTRON VISA debit card would solve that problem? I do not know....
Friday, January 18, 2008
Fraud... People Today >:-0
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We just noticed a pending charge on my husband's mastercard for the same exact thing! We definitely did not approve the charge. When I went to the company's website, I still had no clue.
When we called mastercard to dispute the charge, they informed us that the same company had tried to hit our card 5 times before, but never actually drew the money from our account. Weird, huh?
The only thing we could do was to cancel the credit card and have mastercard issue us a new one.
I guess i was lucky that the people at VISA caught the suspicious activity. I probably wouldn't have caught it until i used the card and over-drew my account...
The nerve of some people and their lack of morals. Really makes me lose faith in the goodness of man.
This same thing just happened to me! What recent sites have you bought things from online?? I got charged 57 dollars. I bought photo things last week but thats all I can think of.
Well, when it happened to me I didn't purchase anything recently online. I believe my number got swiped at some place like a restuarant or something like that.
Good thing is that I now have a new card and everything was taken care of. This didn't really affect me in any way so it all worked out in the end.
Still the nerve of some ppl...
Unbelievable...
I also have attempts made on my card to charge $1,000 on March 29 to "one beat cpr" and another attempt made April 2 for $250 to lnr*ftd/flash.com. The only time I have ever used my card online was at 1-800-pet meds. What's going on here and how can we have these criminals hunted down and prosecuted?
sorry to hear about ur mis fortunes...
i do believe that VISA looks into it and prosecutes whomever they can find from this stuff.... but other than that.. its usually not worth ur own money to try and go after them
My card was charged $215.00 by FTD-flash.com but was declined. This was a brand new card just issued because the same attempt (same company) did it to my old card. The information on my new card had not been made available to anyone -- the card had never been used. Inside job???
that is quite interesting
Maybe it is someone from within VISA that is doing all of this. i wouldn't put it past them at all.
Happened to me too, $57.00, FTD-Flash. BofA caught it and they are re issuing a new card to me.
Just out of curiosity, are you all located in So. Cal and might have eaten in Fullerton?
The same thing happend to me with a card I don't use often
No, at the time i was located in State College, PA. I seriously believe that it is someone from within either VISA or some commonality that is doing these fraudulent charges. Quite strange that people from all different locations w/ different interests would be faced with the same issue. Gotta be an inside job of some sort. A list of places for me where i keep my Card info online: Paypal, Neteller, Ebay, Verizon Wireless, Comcast, Different CC's to pay bills online. That is about it for me... so i dunno
I just received a call from my credit card company visa that someone tried to take 215.00 twice 80.00 and 300 froma lnr*ftd-flash.com-i called the number said they are a temp plate company. I am reporting it to the attorney generals office. I never gave my card to anyone
ftd-flash.com again. $215 attempted charge to my visa card on 6/18. Fortunately, visa called me right away, on the 18th.
same thing just happened to me. your blog verified i am not crazy. i recently used my card at wal-mart.com
Same thing just happened to me! pending charge of 57.00 showed up in my bank account from LNR* FTD-FLASH.COM on 7/1/08. I don't use my account much so i was worried immediately. waiting for charge to post so i can dispute! i can't believe this!
$215 attempted to be charged twice against my Mastercard yesterday to the same FTD-Flash.com as others have reported here. I was called by Chase reporting this and other suspicious activity ($1200 twice to a auto parts online store), and charges were blocked. Anybody have a guess why they keep trying the same FTD-Flash site for the same $215 amount so often?
This morning my bank WAMU, called me to verify some charges & this same charge came up lnr*ftd/flash.com for $215 on my pending transactions. I do a lot of on-line shopping & felt safe about the people who kept my info. Now, i don't feel as safe anymore. I googled the charge & led me to this blog..
It just happened to me. $215. BofA caught it and emailed me. They canceled it immediately.
Wow, this is NUTS. My name is John and I just got a call this morning from my Credit Card company. They told me a company called FTDflash.com charged my card 215.00! So I'm racking my head trying to figure out when I made a charge to FTD! Naturally I thought it was the flower delivery company, and what's weird is I had my assistant use my card to order condolence flowers for a colleague who lost his sister last week.
So what the heck is going on? Do we contact the cops, what??
I was just checking my credit card statement online and notice a pending charge of $215. I couldn't figure out what I charged for that amount so I checked with my husband to see if he had used the card recently, which he hadn't. I then called my credit card company to see what they could tell me and they said the pending transaction came from FTD-Flash.com on July 18. I was told that my bank had already placed a fraud watch on my account and had frozen my available balance. I was happy that my bank was watching out for me, but disappointed that they had not informed me that they had frozen my available blanace. Obviously this is happening all over the place. What does it take to catch those responsible?
Ok, same thing today on my Visa - $215 from FTD Flash and they caught it. I also was in Southern Cal but live on the EAst Coast and have Verizon Wireless too. Thought it was the guy at Lukoil gas station but guess not if so many others around the country are being hit too...JD
I tried using my Chase Visa Business Card today, but it was declined, which NEVER happens. come to find out, our friends at FTD Flash.com tried charging $1025.85 to it, but had the wrong expiration date, so visa declined the transaction, flagged my account and froze it. new card is on its way to me for tomorrow.
I really think we're all getting hit from either the "20 million credit card numbers stolen" that happens a nowadays, or its just a really smart dork with a random number generator that somehow can keep trying numbers until an actual credit card number comes up. i never buy anything with my business card online for an amount like that, so i'm glad visa/chase flagged that transaction and declined it.
Just happened to me also, $206.95. I was one of the lucky ones and VISA caught it. I haven't used this card in over a year! It was the lnr*FTDflash.com and they said that it is showing as a computer networking service. Please tell all your friends! This is crazy!!!
Sorry to say that my account was charged $1086.85 twice (two of the exact same charge on the same day) and $511.94 two days later - all showed up as LNR* FTD-FLASH.COM.
I just happened to notice that my available credit was very low over the weekend and I saw these show up as "PENDING" charges on my online account today.
Word to the wise: if you see LNR* FTD-FLASH.COM on your bill, cancel your card immediately!
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