Disney Resort guests scammed

[mrerk]

I do not take out my credit card anywhere (including WDW) until I absolutely have to. Even then, I cover the numbers with my hand, and try to conceal my signature on the back for this very reason.

Yet, a little more than a year ago I went to use my Disney Visa and it was frozen. Turns out someone stole the number and used it to charge nearly $1000 for gas in Detroit!

I have no idea how the number was stolen to this day. Chase froze my account on their own, believing the charges to be fraudulent, and I was not responsible for any of them. Still, I do not know where they could have gotten the number from...really scary.


Joe, I'm glad you're getting some resolution, and hopefully you'll help contribute to this creep getting put behind bars for a long time :sohappy:

I read a story somewhere where the crooks were opening up the card readers on gas pumps and plugging in some kind of device to record the card #'s and PIN #'s. They would leave the device in there for a few days and then go back and retrieve it.

 

[TheKeeler7]

I read a story somewhere where the crooks were opening up the card readers on gas pumps and plugging in some kind of device to record the card #'s and PIN #'s. They would leave the device in there for a few days and then go back and retrieve it.

That happened at an ATM in my town last year. They put a little device where you put the card in that would read the info when it was inserted. And mounted a camera on the ceiling so they couls see your PIN number when you put it in.

It was there a while before people noticed charges on their accounts.

 

[wdwmomof3]

This happened to me and my wife 12/4/08...on our Honeymoon. The guy got us for nearly 6000. I caught it within 30 minutes of it happening. We called the police and I was called to by the Detective in Orange County. They caught the guy this week and I am flying to Orlando this weekend so we can press charges!!!!

I am sorry that this happened to you. I hope they lock him up for a long time.

I am still mad about my SSN being stolen from a hospital in NC. Everything that they tried to do was done online all in one day. I was called by one of the companies and put a fraud alert on my credit report. Luckily nothing was approved because so much was done so fast. They never caught the person either.