Attention Bass Pro customers

[Grizzly Adams]

and anyone else, who may have bought anything at Cross Iron Mills recently. Wife got a call this morning, regarding a fraudulant transaction on her credit card. Only place she used that card, during the last 6 months, was for my birthday present, bless her soul, at Bass Pro, last week. Not the first time skimmers have been operating in that mall, so check your credit card statements. Obviously her card provider was alert and caught it.

Grizz

[Okotokian]

You SURE that was the only place she used the card??? I swear I'd heard something about a card scam at Cross Iron about a year ago, not specifically at BP

Edit: here ya go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLs04KIeJcI

[gilbertslake]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

and anyone else, who may have bought anything at Cross Iron Mills recently. Wife got a call this morning, regarding a fraudulant transaction on her credit card. Only place she used that card, during the last 6 months, was for my birthday present, bless her soul, at Bass Pro, last week. Not the first time skimmers have been operating in that mall, so check your credit card statements. Obviously her card provider was alert and caught it.

Grizz

Was it a chip card?
The scammers don't need to see a card to make a non-chip copy. All they need is a plastic blank same as the issuing bank and they emboss the numbers.
They already would know the first two sets of numbers and just add the others. The card they make probably has a completely different name than that of the legitimate card owner.
So, if it is a non-chip card that was used, chances are it was not copied at BP or even at Cross Iron Mills.
There was a thread on this a while back.

[horsetrader]

thanks for the heads up Grizz.

[Cowtown guy]

Originally Posted by Okotokian

You SURE that was the only place she used the card??? I swear I'd heard something about a card scam at Cross Iron about a year ago, not specifically at BP

Edit: here ya go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLs04KIeJcI

x2 got skimmed twice last year.

[darius]

My wifes credit card was stolen last year .

I havn 't cancelled the card as the thief spends less than my wife . . .

[Shmag]

Personally, i like CASH...maybe i'm just old school. Go to my bank machine at an actual bank ATM, withdraw a few hundred bucks and Whala. Pay with cash and sleep at night...

[cranky]

Originally Posted by Shmag

Personally, i like CASH...maybe i'm just old school. Go to my bank machine at an actual bank ATM, withdraw a few hundred bucks and Whala. Pay with cash and sleep at night...

+1. Easier to keep track of spending too.

[BuckMan101]

New scam out is dirtbags will place a fake cover plate/card reader over the ATM which scans the card and store the card information pin/number/etc for 72 hrs until crooks pick it back up

[Big Daddy Badger]

Originally Posted by cranky

+1. Easier to keep track of spending too.

Between scammers and banks that are raking in all sorts of money from transactions that they used to offer for free...I'm gradually weaning myself away from cards as well.

Going to my bank and my bank only for withdrawals saves money and forces me to plan and budget better to.

[whitetail Junkie]

Originally Posted by Shmag

Personally, i like CASH...maybe i'm just old school. Go to my bank machine at an actual bank ATM, withdraw a few hundred bucks and Whala. Pay with cash and sleep at night...

X3....never trust the system