Do you guys link your credit cards to known websites?

[longtimelurker]

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@Techno wrote:

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@longtimelurker wrote:

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@Techno wrote:

you guys are good to go, because amazon does not have store pickup, and to ship to another address you need to re-verify any credit card thats already linked.

funny thing walmart used a billing address thats not even current, and the transaction should not have went through.

and yeah that woudl've been literally handing them the thief on a plate of gold, i mean part of me wanted to let that transaction through, so i can maybe convince walmart the next morning to do something. i am a sucker for justice porn. i know for a fact that i would have to get a manager that cares enough to tell all of his clerks at the pickup about the fraudalent order, and have em delay the guy until police arrives, then an arrest, goddamn if i was working at any retail store i would want to be a part of something like this just to see that guys face when he gets caught. but nope ;D, they woudln't even take the order number!

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Or the credit card thief could have paid someone a small amount to pick up the TV and meet him/her at spot X.  (This is what I do)  No guarantee at all that you would catch the real thief, at the store and once the innocent person doesn't show at X in time, the real one moves on.     It's not always simple, and it may well be cheaper for the store just to absorb these losses.

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that guy was probably a professional credit card thief, if theres such a thing, he placed the order very late and didn't aim too high to trigger a fraud alert from amex.

but i mean even if he sent someone that someone could be arrested and questioned, with good police work he could have given the theif to the police. if he is smart yes he can prove he had no idea he was picking up a stolen item, but don't you have to provide some ID when picking a 700 dollars tv? if he walked with a fake id to pick it up that is alone a felony that would lend him in jail, even if he was paid to do it. 

and what do you mean this is what you do?

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"Professional credit card theives" are usually part of large orgnanized gangs, or in different scenarios, are employees of hostile governement agencies.  So more likely to have bought the stolen information from a broker.  No professional is going to buy physical goods in this way, much too much contact for way too little gain.   They would rather sell large number of info on stolen cards to middle men who sell to end users, pure profit at low risk.

And yes, the police could question the guy and maybe or maybe not make some identiciation, but it's gone from your slam dunk of arresting the thief to a bigger deal.  Which is simply not worth it to the police ofr store.   The attempted theft value is way too small for them to care.

[JagerBombs89]

Based on my experience with having fraud against me... Walmart is by far the easiest store to commit fraud against.  I had a fraudulent card opened in my name and purchases made.  When I reported it IN PERSON and asked for more information, the managers (in store and on the phone) both REFUSED to cooperate with me.  They stated that since I did not open the account, they would NOT give me any information about the account EVEN THOUGH IT WAS IN MY NAME because the information belonged to someone else and they won't violate their privacy. LOL!!!!  They said to talk to the police and if the police decide to investigate, THEN they would release information to them!

[SunriseEarth]

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@longtimelurker wrote:

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@Techno wrote:

you guys are good to go, because amazon does not have store pickup, and to ship to another address you need to re-verify any credit card thats already linked.

funny thing walmart used a billing address thats not even current, and the transaction should not have went through.

and yeah that woudl've been literally handing them the thief on a plate of gold, i mean part of me wanted to let that transaction through, so i can maybe convince walmart the next morning to do something. i am a sucker for justice porn. i know for a fact that i would have to get a manager that cares enough to tell all of his clerks at the pickup about the fraudalent order, and have em delay the guy until police arrives, then an arrest, goddamn if i was working at any retail store i would want to be a part of something like this just to see that guys face when he gets caught. but nope ;D, they woudln't even take the order number!

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Or the credit card thief could have paid someone a small amount to pick up the TV and meet him/her at spot X.  (This is what I do)  No guarantee at all that you would catch the real thief, at the store and once the innocent person doesn't show at X in time, the real one moves on.     It's not always simple, and it may well be cheaper for the store just to absorb these losses.

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   I hope the word "would" is missing from this phrase!

[Jerry45]

+1. Same for me. Amazon is the only site I store my info