Heads up everyone, had my credit card compromised for a large amount of money. I use a separate credit card for all online shopping, and I recently donated money to the NRA and SAF, ordered items from brownells, GCA, and Windham. I have no evidence of how my credit card was compromised, but these vendors are new (less than 10-15 days) to this credit card of mine. This same credit card has been used countless times online and in person, over the last few years with no issues.

 

I've started the fraud process with card issuer, but I wanted to give a heads up to everyone, that there may be a new problem out there. With all the craziness of the last few weeks to do with firearms and accessories; and that all of these vendors are firearm related; and it seems suspicious.

 

In no way what so ever, am I Implying these vendors have been compromised as I have no facts, other than my own dilema, and I am not starting finger pointing. just concerned and thought I would share this.

 

The other suspicious factor is that a package showed up on my doorstep today containing an expensive saltwarter reel, that I did not order from a boating/fishing vendor I have never done business with.

Thanks for the heads up. Just out of curiosity what kind of reel?

Funny u should say that... did u order from cabelas.. cause after a cabelas order I had some fruad on a cc I only use for gun crap

Funny u should say that... did u order from cabelas.. cause after a cabelas order I had some fruad on a cc I only use for gun crap

I have a Cabelas card . They shut me down three times last month when I bought toys. They told me they were having issues and tightened there security. Any non usual buys will shut the card down. But now I have an email sent prior to being shut down and a time frame to respond before it is.

Its the world we live in I guess.

 

I have a Cabelas card . They shut me down three times last month when I bought toys. They told me they were having issues and tightened there security. Any non usual buys will shut the card down. But now I have an email sent prior to being shut down and a time frame to respond before it is.

Its the world we live in I guess.

mine was a chase card that the charges on it. Only used it at cabelas and sgammo. Used otger cards for sgammo though and never had an issue hence why I think it was cabelas or maybe a virus on my cpu

i need to do a better job of monitoring my cc statements. if it wasn't a huge amount each month i probably wouldn't even notice before paying the bill.

I have a Cabelas card . They shut me down three times last month when I bought toys. They told me they were having issues and tightened there security. Any non usual buys will shut the card down. But now I have an email sent prior to being shut down and a time frame to respond before it is.

Its the world we live in I guess.

 

I had this happen back in September, when I was in Ft. Worth TX. My Cabelas card kept getting declined at Cabelas of all places.

I had a problem with two cards.

On Amex card you can have them send you an email everytime there is a transaction without the card physically being there.

I had a problem with two cards.

On Amex card you can have them send you an email everytime there is a transaction without the card physically being there.

 

Pretty much everyone has that now. Amex actually ahs a higher threshold than my other cards. The other are $1. Amex it's $10.

 

Still I have caught a few things. For people who like ugn stuff, one of the problems is that you go through a small business which may have set upa cart badly (call it tier 1) , a cart (tier 2), which may be vulnerable , the card service the cart is attached to (tier 3a-3z as there might be more than one layer of these), and the actual card company (tier 4).

 

In the last year there have been several large compromises at the tier 4 and 3 levels, and tier 1 and 2 are constant risks. I had one vendor who I got what with fraud EVERY time I did a transaction with them, which unfortunately I had to do three times to complete my custom order or not get might product and lose my deposit.

 

You need to check your statements. Every single time my cards have been compromised in the last 3 years there have been low dollar value tests that you could catch. $2-40. Usually it is easy to sort out. For some reason they fought me tooth and nail over a ~$20 charge for yahoo's premium mail service and a charge to an internet dating site that even the search engines had barely heard of.

Huh, I had that happen last year after an online order with Cabellas also. There were other places that I used the card also and still have no idea where it happened but there may be a pattern forming.

 

 

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Common small charge that they use is iTunes store. Hard to spot if you download songs a couple times a month. I noticed a $20 game and 4 add on packs one day.Considering I don't do games it set off an alarm. Took a month to get it cleared and credited.

They tried to tell me maybe one of my kids did it. Considering I don't have any.....it was a nice try on their part to blow me off.