GAME Fraud Warning

[Chronictank]

Short name. I only found out because my preorder got cancelled then spoke to my card company fraud dept and they told me it has affected 1000s of people up and down the country they suspect either that company has been hacked or someone has compromised the card details stored. So today feeling confident it cannot happen twice can it I put in the details of my other card and within a few hours I am speaking to another card company fraud dept who say they are seeing high levels of fraud at the moment from this website. Lot of people may not realise as unless they check their emails for cancellations the post is slower so it can take up to a week before you get a letter but you may find your card has been cancelled in the meantime. The method they are using is a very low value transaction on Napster or itunes for less than a pound so it may not even show up on your statement. This is a test to see if the card is valid before they make a bigger purchase.

Don't know if it is real or not but might want to check your cards if you have games on pre-order with them

 

[old.Tohtori]

Rather that then "thousands of cards emptied etc etc".

 

[Dudley52]

Didn't buy a game, but attempted to buy a TV off Amazon. Got my card blocked. Same thing happened when I attempted to buy my Laptop about a year ago. Its a good thing that they do it, but its kinda annoying, my bank should ring me immediately, rather than having to go down to my local branch to unblock it. Slightly off-topic sorry !

 

[Ormorof]

where did you get that quote from? i'd like to read more

 

[gohan]

where did you get that quote from? i'd like to read more

AWPC@OcUK


im going to assume either a forum or a blog on overclockers uk