[Sca-cooks] Pennsic Credit Card Problems?
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Thu Aug 28 13:47:18 PDT 2008
Bear suggested:
>The scenario Alys describes makes me suspect that hers was among the 40
>million card numbers that were lifted about six weeks ago from, IIRC,
>Marshall Fields computers. As I recall, purchases at T.J. Maxx, Marshall
>fields and Barnes and Noble may be part of the compromised data.
Well, unless the data had been collected years ago, I dont frequent these
stores. Last purchase in T.J. Maxx might have been 8 years ago - and I
usually use cash. Ditto for Barnes and Noble. They arent nearby so I use
Borders/Waldenbooks.
Niccolo suggested:
>Even perhaps a local store or marketplace where several people frequented
>before, during or after the war.
I never leave site; I dont use a credit card for gas or groceries. Thats
why this has been so puzzling. Id heard rumors of somewhat-organized
thieves attending Pennsic and then stealing from tents, which cant be
locked. I wondered if it were possible to snag all those lovely credit
card purchase numbers from our event. I certainly trust the folk at
Devras. I had purchases for much smaller amounts at two other merchants
around the time I bought books from Devra - and one late in the War. There
are no fraudulent charges prior to my purchases from Poison Pen, so all the
fraudulent charges took place after I was at War.
Alys, with a new credit card number
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/
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