Weird credit card transaction

johnnyshuttle

johnnyshuttle wrote: »

I've got it on my statement today (Yorkshire Bank Visa) £7.12

John

Been refunded:j

Theness

It's still happening....on my credit card today £6.42 converted from US Dollars 9.37 .
Payment to www Suppatoys com 303-2618619 Co
I have informed my cc supplier and stopped my card. Hopefully will get it refunded but just thankful it was a small amount!

butterfly320

I wonder if it has to do with trying to get too many one-way tickets or using the same card for too many transactions. I checked with my bank and there weren't any "denied" transactions on their end. I tried checking with AK Air Credit Card folks, and they said they couldn't help me. Really weird! I was using the card to bump up an accounts with the 30% bonus for buying miles.

MGD

butterfly320 wrote: »

I wonder if it has to do with trying to get too many one-way tickets or using the same card for too many transactions. ....

It is difficult to tell for sure. This is just one of numerous ongoing frauds being perpetrated by a Russian organized crime syndicate who have been operating globally for almost a decade. They routinely obtain large quantities of consumer card data by infiltrating the global financial system. While many victims have used their fraudulently charged cards online before hand, others have not. In some rare cases it has been the first charge ever on a victim's card.

SUPPATOYS.COM 303-261-8619 has been confirmed as one many ongoing card fraud laundering operations of this organized crime syndicate. The US SUPPATOYS associated merchant account was identified as fraudulent from within the financial system, and has already been closed down. Your bank should be able to obtain a credit for the charge, if one has not been already issued. It is vital however that you have the card replaced. Your full card account data including the cvv2 security code is in the possession of a Russian based crime syndicate, and they will continue to process charges against if it is not canceled.

Some very smart posters on here !!, the original poster alibongo42 who noticed random forum postings under the signature of "SUPPATOYS.COM 303-261-8619" That is a process initiated by the criminals and is called SEO seeding, usually began ahead of the fraud charge processing for the purpose of hiding future posts of the fraud from the front page of search returns. In many cases these forum posts have been traced to IP addresses originating from the Chisinau area of Moldova. Since English is not their native language, they copy and re-paste existing posts into new forums now with the added signature of the fraud name and phone number. Often when reposted they appear unrelated and out of context.

You can read a typical alert that is posted for this crime syndicate's operation:

800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-206-350-9087

SUPPATOYS.COM 303-261-8619 is also addressed in this main forum which tracks this multi year fraud, scroll to the bottom of the page here:

dslreports.com/forum/r19620593-Ebook-websites-fraud-charges-DevbillDigitalAgePluto~start=980

They have been tracked fraud charging UK cards as far back as 2003-2004. They were also tracked setting up merchant account laundering operations in the UK in 2008. They were recruiting mules with job adds on Trovit for a program subsequently named the Strawberry fraud:

bobbear.co.uk/#strawberry

That operation was intercepted right as it was getting of the ground and closed down. Though the primary volume of fraud charging is against US cards, the UK comes in second. Routinely victims show up from Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Japan, and also South America.

The Domain registration details posted earlier for SUPPATOYS.COM are not related to the fraud in any way. Neither are any of the search results which flowed from it. That name and address in Pennsylvania is a victim of identity theft. The criminals always register the fraud sites to third parties who are not even aware it has been done.

Again, notify your bank that the SUPPATOYS charge is fraudulent, and that it is imperative that a replacement card is issued. Check your recent prior statements for any small fraud charges that you might have missed. Post the names if you have any, or if you got subsequent fraud charges.

The fraud proceeds are laundered in a very sophisticated scheme through various shell companies registered in the US, UK, Cyprus, British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Belize, etc, with corresponding bank accounts in Cyprus, Latvia, Dominican Republic, etc. The money ends up in Russia and the Ukraine, many millions a year. It varies, but about 75% to 80% of the fraud charges do not get charged back and are paid. A rough ratio in the US, is that for every one complaint posted online, it equates to around 1,500 to 2,000 victims. That is based on prior analysis of actual known quantity of charges per entity, versus the number of complaints that showed up online.

NOTE: Even though I have been a member from back during the UK DSI bundles fraud, I cannot post links. You can copy and paste them, but will need to insert the h t t p and www prefix

MGD