Credit Card Fraud Incident GoDaddy Netherlands

techquest

Just a heads up on an incident of CC fraud I caught today.

Card used was 2 years out of date, and had not been used by me for about 30 months. I had a txt message to mobile today from bank asking me to pay £5 immediately for charges on the account. So I called and asked what for. 2 transactions had appeared on the account in January 2019 for a total of £500+ from the same company. The company in question is GoDaddy Netherlands.

The bank had not been sending paper statements and had not sent a replacement card for the expired one. I didn't pursue the replacement as I didn't use the card anymore and therefore I imagined it had just been ceased.

The fraud department confirmed the transactions were indeed fraudulent and that the card details used were of those of the 2 year expired card. They have authorized the credit of the transactions and charges back to the card today.

I have never used GoDaddy for anything and as said not used the card in over two years. I have looked on line and discovered many similar cases around the world by the same company but not for such large amounts. The fraud rep could not explain how this could happen but was aware of GoDaddy BHN in the Netherlands and scams that have been ongoing for a long while.

As I said It's just a heads up to all should you come across a similar incident with this company. I have always been in the IT & Telecoms industry, my systems are locked down as tight as can be and I have always been ultra cautious with anything involving online transactions. How they managed to carry this out is a mystery to me, but they did and just shows we should be on guard at all times.

18cc

Many thanks for letting us know

eco_warrior

Glad you got it sorted but I’m not sure what the point of your thread is?

DCFC79

This is why it's a good idea to close a card or the account of you haven't used it in say 2 months.

techquest

eco_warrior wrote: »

Glad you got it sorted but I’m not sure what the point of your thread is?

The forum being a place to share such stuff, as I said, just to appraise anyone interested in such issues whilst highlighting the fact that it was GoDaddy, a fairly large well known techie company, who carried out the scam.

techquest

18cc wrote: »

Many thanks for letting us know

Chino wrote: »

Yes, because until I read the OP I had never heard of credit card fraud.

Was there anything you found wrong with 18cc's post or the fact that the forum is supposed to be about sharing such issues. If so perhaps you can kindly let us know so we are all aware.

eco_warrior

How did godaddy “carry out a scam”?

fwor

As credit card frauds go, it's a bit of an inexplicable one though, isn't it?

I would have expected a "typical" credit card fraud to involve someone buying something expensive and resellable, having it delivered somewhere and then selling it and making off with the cash.

But GoDaddy Netherlands (possibly related to the US-based GoDaddy with the elephant butchering CEO?) sell domain names and web hosting and stuff like that don't they?

There doesn't seem to be anything much they sell that you can easily run off with and sell to your mate down the pub, so as an attempt at fraud, how does it work?

On the face of it, it looks more like an erroneous transaction than an attempt at fraud. I can't imagine that anyone at GoDaddy NL would foresee any outcome other than a chargeback, because a £500 transaction is not going to be overlooked by many people...

Fingerbobs

The only fraud I've ever had on any of my cards was to "Amazon Digital Downloads" - which doesn't sound like it would be anything re-sellable. Just someone after some free music, presumably.

agrinnall

techquest wrote: »

...highlighting the fact that it was GoDaddy, a fairly large well known techie company, who carried out the scam.

What's your evidence that GoDaddy carried out the fraud? It seems highly unlikely that a respected organisation would risk their reputation for a small amount of money. They are probably the victims of the fraud.

eco_warrior

agrinnall wrote: »

What's your evidence that GoDaddy carried out the fraud? It seems highly unlikely that a respected organisation would risk their reputation for a small amount of money. They are probably the victims of the fraud.

This is my point


A 3rd party has carried out the fraud and the victims are the OP and GoDaddy.