Some moron stole my credit-card info

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I got an automated call from chase yesterday about how they noticed some suspicious activity on my Amazon card. It went over the list of charges & they were all charges I've made; cable bill, phone bill, Amazon so I pressed the number saying that the charges were legit. A couple hours latter a person from Chase called saying that they noticed suspicious activity & asked me if I recognized a $3.75 charge for washroom. I told her I didn't make that charge so their going to cancel that charge & send me a new card.

Something like that happened to me a couple years ago. I got a call from Chase asking me if I recognized a charge for NetFlix. I never used that so Chase gave me a new card & some paperwork to sign. A couple days after I received that call; I got something in the mail from NetFlix. I did not open it & I put it back in the mail & wrote "return to sender did NOT order". A couple days latter I got another thing in from NetFlix & I did the same thing as before. A couple days latter I got another thing in from em & I sent it back again & that was it. Chase didn't make me pay for it.

I think someone got my info the 1st time because I had a virus problem on my computer. I payed my cable bill online a couple days ago but I went to Comcast site directly & I ran a couple virus scans & no viruses this time. I never had a major virus infection on this Windows7 comp & AVG hasn't detected a virus on it in a while. I'm not to worried about this thou because I signed up for LifeLock after the 1st time & I call a credit bureau to have fraud alerts placed on my account every 90 days

What I don't understand is why someone would bother stealing credit info just so they can have NetFlix sent to the victims house or so they can spend $3.75 at a laundromat. What's the point

I found bogus charges on my credit card and complained to the bank.

You want to talk about morons? The person used my card number to pay his electricity bill and other personal debts.
How dumb can you get?

Ugh. At least the company caught it. Someone stole mine once somehow but used it to launder/steal about $7000. Sometimes the numbers are stolen and the criminals make sort of parasitic purchases over and over in the hopes that no one notices. Like a dollar here, a dollar there, etc. I think they do it to lots and lots of cards and it adds up.

Oh, crikey! I hope that bugger gets beaten at his own game.

Don't ask me how I know, but there are organized groups who employ talented elite hackers to create spyware and hack large databases to collect bulk credit card info, they make small charges infrequently to these so they aren't noticed.. but when they have as many as several million credit cards to put small charges on (almost always under $5 to not attract attention) that adds up to millions of dollars a day for some of these groups