This morning, I got a call from my bank, informing me that someone has tried to make a charge of approximately US$5000 with my credit card in an auto parts store in Japan. Of course it was not me making the charge, and obviously it was another credit card fraud.
The question is, how did they get my credit card info?
Coincidentally, a friend of mine told me she experienced the EXACT fraud from the EXACT store on the same day! So we started checking which websites we have both used our cards and it turned out that we have both placed orders in the same sale on a private sale site! We don't have any evidence showing that our cc infos got stolen from that site, it was just a coincidence. But this has already scared me from shopping online from now on!
The question is, how did they get my credit card info?
Coincidentally, a friend of mine told me she experienced the EXACT fraud from the EXACT store on the same day! So we started checking which websites we have both used our cards and it turned out that we have both placed orders in the same sale on a private sale site! We don't have any evidence showing that our cc infos got stolen from that site, it was just a coincidence. But this has already scared me from shopping online from now on!