Fraud victims unite 0
Someone stole my credit card number last month and decided to spend £1413.63 on electrical goods from MUANGTHONG ENGINEERING in Thailand. They also tried to spend £2000 with an online retailer in Turkey. The money will be refunded to my glowing red account if I sign a document promising it wasn’t me. The lady on the fraud prevention hotline asked me if I’d ever let the card leave my sight. Do restaurants count?
The bad guys may have gotten good at finding their victims online (who know’s if that’s where my card was nubbed), but the internet victims are also skilled at finding and sharing information about the bad guys. This article is from 2002, but several of the links in it are still active, like ebayersthatsuck.com. Fraud Aid are still doing good work, as are Artists Against 419 who “flashmob” Nigerian spammers. There is even a new urban slang term for someone who defrauds someone else and is then publicly humiliated on the internet.
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