This was extremely unusual and I wanted to warn other users.
I had an instance of fraud occur on my card and I was sent another in the mail. When the credit card arrived, there was a sticker on the card inside the envelope with a phone number to activate it. I called the number and was transferred to a foreign call center that asked for a large number of personal details including the card number, expiry date, and 3-digit code. They also told me I won some vitamins and would transfer me to the "activation specialist".
Once I was transferred and the process continued and they wanted my social security number, I hung up because this whole process was suspicious. BUT I CALLED THE NUMBER STICKERED TO MY CARD.
Not one day later, a fraudulent charge for vitamins was attempted with my new card.
How did this even happen? That's a major security breach if a fraudulent sticker arrives on my card in the mail. I wanted to warn anyone who is activating their card - call the number you are familiar with and is printed on the card itself, not the activation sticker - just in case this becomes widespread.
Submitted April 18, 2018 at 11:31AM by recentgraduat https://ift.tt/2qGkmCr
