Friday, February 13, 2009

Debit Card Fraud Hits Close to Home

A colleague of mine recently discovered a transaction in his checking account from a company with which he has never done business:

WWW.PROMOSDESIGN.COM 540-317-3245 NV 24493989021207633400563

$11.89


The website doesn't exist, and the phone number goes nowhere.

This is particularly sneaky, because the amount is small enough to increase the likelihood that it will go unnoticed!

Luckly, I didn't have any of these in my account. But I'd watch out for this in your account, just to be safe!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If you shop online it's really easy to buy or "join" something by clicking on a free offer out of curiosity. The offers aren't from the company you're buying from, but independent. Recently I asked my credit card to replace my card in order to get rid of a monthly "membership" charge for about $12 per month I didn't mean to buy.