kellyc
02-16-2006, 03:46 PM
Hyatt I am not sure if this belongs on local or national. Move it where you deem necessary.
I was listening to Clark Howard today, when a gentleman came on to tell about the scam that someone had attempted to play on him. He said that he checks his credit cards online fairly regularly and noticed a 2200 dollar charge on his account, that he had not made. He called the merchant who told him that the purchase was to be delivered to him that day, at his house, it was on the truck right then. So the caller, walks outside and finds a "Missed You" delivery slip from Fedex..as they had attempted to deliver the package and he wasnt there...to call them. He also found what he thought was a delivery slip from UPS.
So he called UPS, and found out that the delivery slip was actually a pickup slip. Turns out the thieves had tracked the package online and scheduled an immediate overnight pickup/delivery from UPS within the hour. How very bold, and how very lucky this caller was that he had checked his credit card account online.
Clark also explained how difficult it would have been for this guy to have claimed fraud had the deliveries been successful. The billing and mailing addresses had matched for the order, and had there been a successfully delivery, from the merchant and credit card company's point of view it would have appeared valid. WOW WOW WOW...Im not sure if there is a moral or even a fix for this kind of crime, other than to check your credit card stuff every day.
I was listening to Clark Howard today, when a gentleman came on to tell about the scam that someone had attempted to play on him. He said that he checks his credit cards online fairly regularly and noticed a 2200 dollar charge on his account, that he had not made. He called the merchant who told him that the purchase was to be delivered to him that day, at his house, it was on the truck right then. So the caller, walks outside and finds a "Missed You" delivery slip from Fedex..as they had attempted to deliver the package and he wasnt there...to call them. He also found what he thought was a delivery slip from UPS.
So he called UPS, and found out that the delivery slip was actually a pickup slip. Turns out the thieves had tracked the package online and scheduled an immediate overnight pickup/delivery from UPS within the hour. How very bold, and how very lucky this caller was that he had checked his credit card account online.
Clark also explained how difficult it would have been for this guy to have claimed fraud had the deliveries been successful. The billing and mailing addresses had matched for the order, and had there been a successfully delivery, from the merchant and credit card company's point of view it would have appeared valid. WOW WOW WOW...Im not sure if there is a moral or even a fix for this kind of crime, other than to check your credit card stuff every day.