WJM

and perhaps there is a delivery address...
my guess though is that it was a hacker, who ended up using the paypal to buy services, and will therefore be harder to trace

trancesp0t

I have a charge on the same day as I purchased from PureMS:

02/17 02/17 8Z083*8M PURE MOTORSPORT TEMECULA CA Standard Purch 126.97
02/17 02/17 1JS2H100 WP-CLUBENET PADERNE-ALBUF GBR Standard Purch 25.00

Then the rest follows:

3/02/06 03/02 WWW.MATCH.COM/BILL 61-282433400 GBR $30.00
03/03/06 03/03 WWW.MATCH.COM/BILL 61-282433400 GBR $26.06
03/03/06 03/03 WP-SINGLESCROWD BRISTOL GBR $69.95
03/03/06 03/03 WWW.DATINGCAFE.DE HAMBURG DEU $15.53
03/04/06 03/04 SINGLEKAFE.DE WAIBLINGEN GBR $35.75
03/05/06 03/05 WP-SINGLES LTD TAS BRISTOL GBR $19.95
03/05/06 03/05 XENONDA LIMITED 650-616-8226 CA $24.95
03/06/06 03/06 MATES4DATES LTD MATES4DATES.C GBR $26.15
03/06/06 03/06 IPAY-FRIENDFINDER (650)847-3100 KNA $19.99
03/07/06 03/07 RSVP COM AU PTY LTD NORTH SYDNEY AUS $66.27

I've reported the card stolen and am now in process of getting a credit for these charges. Please let me know if you guys had similar charges from the same places.....I wonder if this is linked to PureMS. I've also purchased from ECS (a while back) and TireRack on 2/22. (after the first unauthorized charge).

Audiboy

because debit usually requires a pin. Nevertheless, I caught it early, took care of it, BOFA went after the company which refunded my fraud and is performing a criminal investigation.

Funny as it seems a number of us where affected in a short span

leosphere

I caught it online and the bank refunded it right away. I didn't see anything in Paypal, and when they replied, they had no idea about it. The name said Ebay or paypal Powerseller. It was a while since I last ordered from ECS though. A month or more, right before I added the new brakes.

Audiboy

Are all the sites you visit for transaction secured (https)
Do you have login accounts with CC information?
Is your PC always on?

Did you scan your computer for worms lately?

Having this stuff stored in temp files makes it easier for anyone hacking through broadband connections obtain that information quickly and use maliciously.

Next, the paper statements, receipts, etc. Straight trash is like an open invitation. Shredding is the best before recycle.

My thoughts, although I still got hit with debit card usage. I'm thinking I used it in an ATM which someone hacked to read info.

BMORE_Ken

Thanks for the help but M + T bank refunded my money right away and then pay pal payed them back within a week. It was obviously not me. I was able to get the person e-mail address but that didn't help. It scary though to think that someone got my info, but it appears that it was just my card number.

Ken

manualAvant

There have been things like that in the news... if this is the same and/or ECS knew about it and didn't advise anyone, there might be a problem there.

GOOOO

CC theft/fraud is happening all over, all the time -- ECS might have adequeate security, but there are many other ways your CC info might have been compromised.

Note: A lot of your credit card companies use the same data companies to "mine" for data. These data companies, such as the one brought up in the link I've attached (which I used to work for) store tons of information about you, your credit information and your buying habits. This informaiton is for sale to reputable companies so that they can match data with their own or "farm" for new customers. Users can slice and dice the information to target any type of person: affluent, MBNA card user, lives in Texas, subscribes to R&T, shops at WalMart often, whatever they want.

All it takes is for someone to hack into these data companies' databases, or for a courier to lose a tape with tons of information, or a person that fraudulently identifies himself as a legit business for your info to be compromised. Once a crook links your info to your credit card, it's cake.<ul><li><a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060301/20060301006125.html?.v=1">http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060301/20060301006125.html?.v=1</a></li></ul>

leosphere

May be its AUDIWORLD!!! The new changes did it...lol. I do doubt it has to do with ECS alone

JAFO

they've had my cc# on file for several years an i've had no problems.