So I’ve been kinda busy this week, but I finally took a look at my mail and my bank account. In the mail, I had helpfully been sent a new debit card, with a new number and everything (for real this time). The message with it said there may have been fraudulent charges on the old account number, so this was a precaution. Fraudulent? Surely not.
Then I checked out the charges on my account, and I found LOTS of charges from organizations I have never in my whole freakin’ life done business with, to the best of my knowledge. I’ve listed them here, in handy table form, in case anyone else on the internets is interested:
| 13 ACAI 1-866-964-1011 P | $5.– |
| ACAIDETOXIFIER BURNHAM ON CR GB | $1.– |
| ACAIDETOXIFIER BURNHAM ON CR GB | $2.– |
| APL*ITUNES | $1.– |
| BOMC2 CS@BOMC2.COM PA | $10.– |
| HDP*Nat’lAlertRegistry 866-5844442 FL | $10.– |
| HDP*Nat’lAlertRegistry 866-5844442 FL | $4.– |
| PAG*OSSUPPLIER 800-8313952 CA | $1.– |
| PLI*BUG DOCTOR 858-350-7473 CA | $49.– |
| SUBMITEXPRESS.COM 8777373083 CA | $29.– |
| THE GUMTREE.COM TW9 | $36.– |
| TOPMONEYLISTING 8008976510 KN | $2.– |
| TRANHELP.COM | $39.– |
| ULTFACIAL866-7112821-V 866-7112821 CO | $4.– |
| UNCOVER THE NET 6306756135 IL | $20.– |
| WIZCHARGE.COM 18882551137 GB | $2.– |
My bank (USAA! W00t!) will probably remove all the charges. And yes, the APL*ITUNES is fraud. I’ve never bought a thing from them. I have issues with Apple’s invasive, annoying itunes software, so I’ve refused to install it, which means I never buy music from their site.
Situation resolved. As far as I know.
UPDATE: I have just noticed that I received two packages in the mail. One was some kinda acai berry supplement, addressed from:
Advanced Wellness Research Inc.
1269 N Wood Dale Rd
Wood Dale, IL 60191
and the other was an unsolicited gift pack of extremely cheap women’s cosmetics, from
Distribution Center
6205 Lookout Rd Ste D
Boulder, CO 80301-3334
I most certainly did not order either of these things, and I think they match up with some of the fraudulent charges on my credit/debit card (note: the second one was addressed slightly wrong to me). The return addresses are so vague (well, the second one, anyway) that the only way to figure out if it’s something relevant is to open it, which I did. And then the postal guy said I couldn’t refuse the delivery after opening. >:(
So, I guess the scam is to send you some cheap-a** stuff, under conditions that will nearly guarantee that you open the packages when you receive them, and charge your credit card, which number was obtained through some data breach somewhere, and hope that you will accept the charge since you have some sort of product now in your possession. Whatever. I’m not returning this crap, I’m certainly not going to *use* something so shady in provenance, and I’m absolutely not paying for it. Suck on that, you cheap dimestore hoods.