News: Discover Cardholders targeted

[AJPatel]

Discover cardholders are the latest target in password stealing scams. Customers have been receiving e-mail messages telling them their accounts have been put on hold due to inactivity, and that in order to reactivate their accounts, they must log in to the account; responses to the message are sent to a Russian Internet address. Information collected includes plenty of identifiers that would enable identity theft: social security number, mother's maiden name, account number and passwords. PayPal and eBay customers have been targeted by similar scams. The method employed by this scheme is different; the e-mail linked to a real Discover site, but the submission form was wrapped in a hidden submission so the information was sent to the attacker.

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(I've seen some people say this shouldn't go in the hot deals topic and others argue it should because a lot of people only read this topic on AT - whatever the mods think is best - sorry if it's not meant to be here )

Edit: Did a search for "discover" in Hot Deals and Off-Topic and it didn't turn anything up so I don't think it's a repost. News was released earlier this month so you may already know about it.

 

[spiridion]

thanks for the heads up

 

[jplee3]

thanks for the info... i hate discover card anyway --- i got 'automatically' registered with their accountguard, which i guess would be a good thing in the case of fraud like this, but i also got a 20 dollar charge that they won't credit back since i cancelled the service late. their finance charges suck as well - 12.99%... horrible - i'm only keeping the card cause of the credit i've built on it. i may as well just close my account with them : /

 

[V00DOO]

Thx for the heads up, but I never click on link from e-mail instead I go directly to servicer website and log in especially with Paypal.

 

[CHJF]

Originally posted by: V00DOO
Thx for the heads up, but I never click on link from e-mail instead I go directly to servicer website and log in especially with Paypal.

bump

 

[JLindo]

Originally posted by: jplee3
thanks for the info... i hate discover card anyway --- i got 'automatically' registered with their accountguard, which i guess would be a good thing in the case of fraud like this, but i also got a 20 dollar charge that they won't credit back since i cancelled the service late. their finance charges suck as well - 12.99%... horrible - i'm only keeping the card cause of the credit i've built on it. i may as well just close my account with them : /

I couldn't agree more jplee 3. I just finnished paying them off and then they came back with more finance charges. When I aksed them about it, they informed me about their different way of calculating finance charges. I'd be mad except ya gotta read what you sign I suppose. What did make me mad though was they wouldn't lower the outrageous (20%+) APR or take the last little bit of finance charges off. $11.00? Just suck it up!

Thanks also for the heads up on this!

 

[Doug117]

Originally posted by: jplee3
I couldn't agree more jplee 3. I just finnished paying them off and then they came back with more finance charges. When I aksed them about it, they informed me about their different way of calculating finance charges. I'd be mad except ya gotta read what you sign I suppose. What did make me mad though was they wouldn't lower the outrageous (20%+) APR or take the last little bit of finance charges off. $11.00? Just suck it up!

OMG dude, finance charges of 20%+??? how many times have you not paid on time? They start you out at 17.99, you got to screw up a couple times until they bump it to the max of 21.99.

Just call 'em up and ask em to lower it... thats what i did... i was on the standard 17.99% but now i'm variable - currently like 14.5%. But then again i dont have to worry about any of it, as I PAY EVERYTHING OFF. I dont know how people can rack up so much debt in their credit cards... but then again, i dont understand people who smoke, knowing full well it is bad for them, and probably will be the death of them....

 

[alm4rr]

Thx for heads up

I was/am worried they got haxd, cuz their site was down a couple of days ago.....

 

[Wolverine27]

Thanks for the warning.

 

[HKSturboKID]

Hmm....interesting. I just received a call last week regarding the same thing, since I am not home, that person left a message on my answer machine. Instead of calling that person back, I call the number on the back of my mastercard and everything seems to be fine.

 

[gr8tango]

bump... good info

 

[jplee3]

I couldn't agree more jplee 3. I just finnished paying them off and then they came back with more finance charges. When I aksed them about it, they informed me about their different way of calculating finance charges. I'd be mad except ya gotta read what you sign I suppose. What did make me mad though was they wouldn't lower the outrageous (20%+) APR or take the last little bit of finance charges off. $11.00? Just suck it up!

i dunno, but i don't seem to have this big of a problem with "finance charges" on virtually any of my other credit cards.... Amex probably comes second, but it's not NEARLY as bad as the ridiculous rates Discover imposes. bah... i guess you pay to have the Discovercard holder 'title' : |

 

[Stifko]

Originally posted by: Wolverine27
Thanks for the warning.

 

[ReiAyanami]

the good part is that if russian mobsters get your discover card #, they won't be able to use it anywhere...

 

[Rigomortis]

I actually like Discover card. I have carried it for about 8 years. In that time I think I have paid 0 finance charges but I make over $200.00's a year on the cash back award program. I only carry a balance on cards that give me 0% or 6 months to a year.