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Matthew Miller
mattdm@hachyderm.io
Ugh, my wife just got fraudulent charges (multiple small-dollar-amount Facebook marketplace ad purchases) on _all_ of her credit cards, some of which she hasn't used in forever. This does does not seem fun.
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@mattdm PayPal does sound bad or like actual phone malware. I'd just cancel all of the credit cards before anything worse happens. Small amounts could be just probing round. Yeah, and factory reset or even switch the phone entirely.
I had multiple tends thousand of dollars of payments taken away from my corporate AMEX one time that I did not notice on time because obviously I used that during only business travel. It was luckily reimbursed by AMEX when I reported the incident.
In my case it was skimmed in Prague when there was some Linux conference.
I had multiple tends thousand of dollars of payments taken away from my corporate AMEX one time that I did not notice on time because obviously I used that during only business travel. It was luckily reimbursed by AMEX when I reported the incident.
In my case it was skimmed in Prague when there was some Linux conference.
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Matthew Miller
mattdm@hachyderm.ioHmmm. Maybe? She has up-to-date Android and isn't big into downloading random apps or whatever.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@mattdm Yeah dunno the situation in detail obviously so definitely maybe. Maybe those were acquired through a data breach. Personally I use services like https://badrap.io/ to be in phase of data breaches and act accordingly if there is any reason to do so.
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@mattdm That said, I would not think too much canceling a credit card even if only small sum of money in gone, and not being heavy on installing random apps. Being a bit over the top on minimizing the collateral damage is usually a good strategy IMHO. Week or two and she will have fresh new ones... You can survive that time period with cash. And factory reset for phone just in case...
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Brodie Robertson
BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social@mattdm How many does she have if you need to say all?
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Mason Loring Bliss
mason@thames.blisses.org
I hope it's resolved quickly and completely. That really sucks.
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@mattdm Credit frozen? If not, better start checking for new cards being opened as well.
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Matthew Miller
mattdm@hachyderm.ioThere is another actual real woman with her same first and last name _and the same birthday_.
This woman lives in Florida.
I'm not _saying_ she's like Jason from the Good Place, but we have had some interesting things appear on our credit report.
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