So I bought my camera from ZipZoomFly.com and I got it and everything was great. Then my credit card company called and said my card was being used to buy train tickets in Europe and that triggered a fraud alert and they closed my account.
So either Preferred Photo or BestPriceCameras.com stole my credit card information or sold it or otherwise fraudulently misused it.
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On a similar note, yesteday I received an e-mail from customercare@butterflyphoto.com:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for ordering from our internet shop. If you paid with a credit card, the charge on your statement will be from name of our shop.
This email is to confirm the receipt of your order. Please do not reply as this email was sent from our automated confirmation system.
Date : 08 Oct 2006 – 12:40
Order ID : 37679041
Payment by Credit card
Product : Quantity : Price
WJM-PSP – Sony VAIO SZ370 C2D T7200 : 1 : 2,449.99
Subtotal : 2,449.99
Shipping : 32.88
TOTAL : 2,482.87
Your Order Summary located in the attachment file ( self-extracting archive with “37679041.pdf” file ).
PDF (Portable Document Format) files are created by Adobe Acrobat software and can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not already have this viewer configured on a local drive, you may download it for free from Adobe’s Web site.
We will ship your order from the warehouse nearest to you that has your items in stock (NY, TN, UT & CA). We strive to ship all orders the same day, but please allow 24hrs for processing.
You will receive another email with tracking information soon.
We hope you enjoy your order! Thank you for shopping with us!
* * *
Of course I purchased no such thing. ‘Cause I’m a smart cookie, I of course do not open the PDF attachment. I go to http://www.butterflyphoto.com to see what kind of domain this thing is. There’s something on their site saying they *NEVER* send e-mail attachments. So obviously the thing is a fake e-mail address. I go check out my bank statements to make sure nothing is funny. Nothing is. Still, what the heck?
Hello Mr Sassy,
I just had two internet orders that were placed on my website using stolen credit cards. I contacted both people and they had both made a purchase through one of the on line camera stores you have mentioned.
Did you file a report with the State Police? If you would like more information to file a police report please feel free to contact me.
Kind Regards,
Karen A Acome
Creative Energy Technologies Inc
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