Credit Card Scam - check your bills

[MartyA]

My company Visa credit card monthly bill showed up today with a single funny little charge.

Personally I think somebody hacked into American Express and Visa and paypal. There are "generex.com" charges on people's credit cards all over the country for very small sums like $4.95. This small charge makes sense only if someone has a million credit card numbers. Finding someone's carbon receipt in the trash of a gas station, or someone getting a Copy of a motel receipt, would likely result in sizeable charges, since the thieves are using only a couple of credit card numbers. It certainly is not worth anyone's time to risk putting a fraudulent $4.95 charge on one or two credit cards.




http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...edit+card+scam

[JWSanders]

If I remember correctly, one of the largest credit/debit card merchants in the country had their main database hacked not too long ago. Several million card numbers and profiles were stolen. If you were affected your card company should have notified you that you were at risk and needed to get a new card issued though.

I went ahead and got a new one, since I got a notice. There might be many banks that didnt issue any notice at all.