Credit Card Fraud involving Blizzard Entertainment

black-saturn

I'm so fuming. I've only just got my new debit card from the last time it happened and now it's happened to me again. I got my statement this morning and there is 1 fraud transaction on it for £11.49. I know it's not much but they started small last time and then ended up taking £1530 out in one go making me severely overdrawn (which was paid back). Now I'm going to have to change my card again. I'm thinking of not bothering with a debit card anymore as this is now the 4th time it's happened to me.

I don't know where they get my details from. After the last time I have not used it online and have limited use in shops and always cover up when I'm typing my pin number in. The last time it happened to me was in april. How can they get my card details in 3 months?

Marquilts

Well, I called NC Soft, they were very accommodating and will refund my account with the $150.00. They told me that someone had my account info but not my billing address, so does that mean that my info wasn't lifted from an online account? Possibly a resturant ?

SINY-LINY

dzug wrote: »

Sorry to go off topic, but would someone like to translate 'scrubs' into British English for me please? It's really bugging me......

Scrubs are the "uniforms" you see Dr's or Nurses wearing in the hospital.

In the US a lot of ppl use them from Hospital staff to dog groomers they're easy to take care of pretty stain resistant and cheap to buy.

If the get bloody or too dirty you can just throw them away.

harryhound

harryhound wrote: »

Blizzard & WOW feature today in the activities of a Chinese Gold Farm.

Two interesting facts:
Blizzard try to ban "gold farmers"; but how do they recognise them, could it be from the credit card they use? Thus forcing the farmer to require a constant supply of new credit card numbers ?

The Chinese farmer explained that he can make 15 dollars a day - worthwhile in China but a joke in the West. However, what does it cost to play the game for a day? It looks as though the fraudster can double his income by paying with YOUR credit card.

The latest BBC program for Today (Thursday) is available at this web address. It should be available for listening for a week and then become a transcript. In the listen-again program the "Gold Farming" is about a quarter of an hour from the start. If you browse the program for Thursday (half way down on RHS) you should be offered the program, broken down into individual items.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/

Harry.

Perhaps I should title this entry as "Would a 10 Fold Increase in your BB Speed Seriously Damage Your Wealth?".

Some people say that half of the UK's house breaking is fuelled by addiction to drugs.

How much of this fraud is fuelled by addiction to internet games?

If you have been reading this thread featuring Blizzard and WOW, you will enjoy listening again to this link, right through to its logical tragic outcome.
(Parents of teenage boys take note:eek:)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/default.stm

That link is now moving on to other topics but much the same report is still available here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1516_assignment/page23.shtml

nodrma2008

I have never had an issue with any online purchases - having several CC to my name...Used all of them online purchases...Opened my latest CC statement from a company I noticed was increasing balance...OVER 50 Charges from WOW SUB BLIZZARD.COM CA - I called other on statement from this CC statement and they said they were refunding money due to CC Fraud...But, this company....Account now closed, now the fun begins trying to clean all this up...:mad:

Dzrtrdr

Could Jasco be a common theme? All my WOW SUB BLIZZARD.COM CA transactions started in late June '07, within a couple weeks of a charge to Jasco Uniforms ( 6/15/07). $102.55 over three transactions on 6/25. Then all was quiet till Dec, when $945 worth of small charges rang up, $220 in Jan'08 and $135 so far in Feb. Yikes! Wells Fargo is dealing with it now.

allsmiles277

02/14/2008Blizzard Ent*wow Sub Blizzard.com Ca$14.99
My account is with Washington Mutual and they suck. They want me to fill out a form. I talked to a lame brain on the 800 number. I told them to close my account. I wish these Blizzard people would do the right thing. I guess they don't care. Does anybody know where they are located ??

allsmiles277

Blizzard Entertainment
P.O. Box 18979
Irvine, CA 92623
CA Tel. 949-955-1380
Fax 949-737-2000

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P.O. Box 18979
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CA Tel. 949-955-1380
Fax 949-737-2000

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