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<\/a><\/p>\nScammers are targeting landline telephone numbers, claiming that there have been ‘suspicious charges’ on your account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\t\t\t\tInteresting. My credit card was hijacked the other night, and I learned about it in a manner that sounds an awful lot like this scam. I guess that’s why the scammers take this approach, since it so closely resembles the legitimate way banks do it.<\/p>\n
An automated call to my old landline number told me to return the call to the number shown on caller ID, which was a toll-free number. I looked up that number and found that its connection to the bank seemed to be legitimate. But I didn’t call that number. It seemed safer calling the number on the back of my credit card, and from a different phone, as suggested in the story linked to here. I used a different phone because I had to. The old landline number goes to magicJack and I don’t have any way to make calls from that number, since I don’t know what happened to the magicJack adapter or whatever it’s called.<\/p>\n
Strange I saw this story, too, since I was not looking for anything on this matter. My assumption is that someone purchased a credit card with my number on it off the Dark Web. All they got away with was a chicken dinner at Popeye’s. The other 2 or 3 attempted transactions were detected by the bank’s fraud alert system, which is pretty impressive. I was a little concerned because the last time I got a call from the bank about strange credit card purchases it was just the beginning of a full bore identity theft episode that lingered in my credit reports for years. This does not appear to be anything like that, at least not yet. I am hostage to UPS today as I wait for delivery of my new credit card so I can update all my many accounts that are paid automatically.<\/p>\n