ADVICE PLEASE>>CREDIT CARD DETAILS STOLEN...SOMETHING VERY FISHY

shoperholicnot

Hi
Found out from mbna tonight that someone tried to buy stuff for £70 on the internet the other day using my card details, the transaction was declined, even though they were first successful in a transaction for a pound!
MBNA told me the name of the site and I was staggered to realise that I had been on the site for the first time ever the night before the hit! I was on it for afew mins, did not register and did not buy anything. it is a really weird coincidence. it is not a site that eveyone would be interested in I did a scan for virus tonight and mcaffe found amultdropper-pc trojan, and some adware, i have removed both. surely these on their own would not be able to get my details. could I have another trojan or keylogger on my pc? really worried now, and am considering restoring pc.

shoperholicnot

just got to add that card has not been out of my sight and pc has been doing some strange things lately, like going to internet pages that i looked at ages ago all by itself!!!

hollydays

Try posting this on techie stuff forum-good luck.

shoperholicnot

yep..good idea I will do that..thanks

jellybabies_2

not at all techie myself but saw prog about scams on tv and if you are wireless it could open you up 4 all kinds of difficulties. worth checkin out.
good luck.

ard123en

if you are using windows then there are hundreds of ways someone on the net can run code with out your knowing

my advice would be to tighten up your secuity and use a more secure operating system like Linux its free and only root can run code at the system level making hacking harder (though not impossible )

carrie483

I had someone try to buy a laptop on finance at a PC world using my bank details once (a few years ago so i was only like 18 :eek:) and the fraud people phoned me up and said 'are you in Luton at the moment trying to buy a laptop?' I was like 'no, i'm at home why?' quite funny know i think back on the convo but scary as hell. Needless to say they didn't get the laptop and my account now has extra security on it.

Oh and the 'lady' who was trying to get the laptop got out the store before the cops got there. (the security guard let her leave :mad:)

I hope you are able to keep it sorted.

Carrie.