Credit card theft

[pantsparty]

Sooo...is there any way someone can get your credit card number without seeing it?

H got a call last week that his card number was attempted to be run fraudulently for $900 at a Target here in California.

What's really odd is he does not carry this card on him - it sits at home in a jar. We haven't had anyone over in months except our cleaners, who come bi-weekly and were just here Wednesday.

I hate to be like, "IT WAS THE CLEANERS!" but I seriously don't know how else someone could get the card number.

Plus that means I'd have to find new cleaners. Ugh!

[Deleted]

Does he use it online?

[pantsparty]

No, he said he almost never uses it. I'm going to have to get more details from him. I know of a few people who had their cards compromised at gas stations and the like, maybe he used it randomly.

[bcv513]

I've had mine stolen twice and both times it never left my wallet. There could have been one of those skimmer things on a store where he swiped it. One friend had the number copied at a restaurant when the waitress took it in the back to bay the bill. It happens.

[pantsparty]

I'll ask him. I really hate to make that assumption. I mean, our cleaners are the type that will line up any loose change we leave out!

[Deleted]

I had some of our business cards get theft charges before I even received them in the mail and activated them. Chase called me to report that someone tried to charge something to two of them and I had NEVER even seen the cards. They arrived in the mail a few days later and they had already been shut down for fraudulent charges. I have no idea how that happens, but I think anything's possible with those motherfuckers at this point.

[Kristinmo]

I had charges to a card recently that I hadn't used in 5 years and is y the drawer of my desk at home. No idea how it happens but I doubt it was the cleaners.