Can't tell if this is charge is real or fraud on my debit card

[Joemonkey]

This is all that is listed

TWX*ENT WKLY/AMEXINNYC, 866-384-

Besides calling the bank, which I am going to do, how can I figure out wtf kinda charge this is?

 

[ChaoZ]

Look at the amount and see if you remember spending that much?

 

[ViviTheMage]

weird....


timewarner x entertainment weekley american express in nyc ?

hahaha

 

[ViviTheMage]

found SOME info on it...but this one was in regards to best buy.

http://www.theconglomerate.org...7/update_on_best_.html

 

[moshquerade]

online porn subscription?

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Look at the amount and see if you remember spending that much?

it's for $44.95 and says it's a checkcard transaction, which I do not recall. Posted date is yesterday, you'd think I'd remember something like that

 

[BurnItDwn]

It's probably al queda. They are using the money to build nuclear bombs in Iran so that they can destroy Israel.
I would report this to your nearest bbspot agency ASAP.

 

[spidey07]

looks like they got you with the "free" magazine subscription and are now billing you for it. It's a long running scam like other "free subscription" stuff.

 

[Old Hippie]

Posted date is yesterday, you'd think I'd remember something like that

All depends on what ya did. There's a few hazy days for me........

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: spidey07
looks like they got you with the "free" magazine subscription and are now billing you for it. It's a long running scam like other "free subscription" stuff.

That would be my guess.

One of those "save $20 now ..." offers which you don't opt out of.

6 - 12 months later you're subscribed to a magazine/newspaper which you never signed up for.

I doubt it's fraud.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: spidey07
looks like they got you with the "free" magazine subscription and are now billing you for it. It's a long running scam like other "free subscription" stuff.

sounds plausible, but I don't get entertainment weekly, and I've never put in my debit card number for any of those free subscription deals

 

[RossMAN]

Have you tried Google'ing the complete phone number?

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Have you tried Google'ing the complete phone number?

From a monkey?

 

[Joemonkey]

called the bank, they gave me the full phone number, called the number, it was some entertainment weekly promotion thing, somehow my wife signed up for something at sam goody's in town with my debit card and if it wasn't cancelled in a certain time

refunding the charge, wife getting an ass beating this evening

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
called the bank, they gave me the full phone number, called the number, it was some entertainment weekly promotion thing, somehow my wife signed up for something at sam goody's in town with my debit card and if it wasn't cancelled in a certain time

refunding the charge, wife getting an ass beating this evening

shouldnt you punish rather than reward her?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
called the bank, they gave me the full phone number, called the number, it was some entertainment weekly promotion thing, somehow my wife signed up for something at sam goody's in town with my debit card and if it wasn't cancelled in a certain time

refunding the charge, wife getting an ass beating this evening

shouldnt you punish rather than reward her?

:laugh: When I used to go to Best Buy more often I got in the habit of saying "no I don't want 3 free issues of Entertainment Weekly or Sports Illustrated" even before they asked.

Recently I signed up for a free subscription to Dr. Dobb's Journal and shortly after I started receiving a free subscription to Sports Illustrated. Strange combo there. IIRC, the Sports Illustrated issues have my company name on them too; I never use my company name when signing up for free magazines, but I did with Dr. Dobb's Journal because it's legitimately work-related. So that convinced me that the Sports Illustrated was related to the Dr. Dobb's Journal. Still haven't gotten an issue of DDJ though...

 

[Old Hippie]

wife getting an ass beating this evening

:camera:

 

[Squisher]

The wife signed up for some wine club when she was in Napa. Later she lost the card and she got a new card with a new number. Tell me how that merchant got the new card number, because we just got a shipment last week?

I think these merchants must have some pretty small type in anything you sign that allows them to hunt you down.

 

[Rastus]

Originally posted by: Squisher
The wife signed up for some wine club when she was in Napa. Later she lost the card and she got a new card with a new number. Tell me how that merchant got the new card number, because we just got a shipment last week?

I think these merchants must have some pretty small type in anything you sign that allows them to hunt you down.

It's not the card number they are charging, it's the account number. That is still the same.

 

[imported_Baloo]

Originally posted by: Rastus

Originally posted by: Squisher
The wife signed up for some wine club when she was in Napa. Later she lost the card and she got a new card with a new number. Tell me how that merchant got the new card number, because we just got a shipment last week?

I think these merchants must have some pretty small type in anything you sign that allows them to hunt you down.

It's not the card number they are charging, it's the account number. That is still the same.

Right, sorta, it's the account, though, since the card number is the card number. Anyways, any pending charges would have been carried over to the new account number.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
It's probably al queda. They are using the money to build nuclear bombs in Iran so that they can destroy Israel.
I would report this to your nearest bbspot agency ASAP.

They charge all kinds of things to my AMEX, mainly plastic explosives.