Well, as most of you, I use online payments for everthing. I pay all my bills online, shop online, buy/take from poker sites online, etc.
Therefore, every morning, when I get up to go to work (5.15AM EST), I check my accounts online to see if anything is out of the ordinary.
Well, yesterday, there was two small ($3.95) charges that didn't look right. So, I called my bank and looked up the charging company's information. I called that company, ccbill.com, and they verified my account information and found some false info (email was not correct, SS was NOT correct, etc) and told me that they would refund the amounts. They also told me that they charges were to online porn sites.
I notified my bank and they told me to go to a branch and file an avidaffit but the branches were closed by the time I got home (I did all of this when I was driving to Albany, NY yesterday)
I was unable to fill out an avidaffit until today. My bank did tell me on the phone that no future new charges could be made but if some where made on 11/4, they would be proccessed today, 11/5.
Then when I awoke today and checked my account again, I almost fainted. Now there are several charges. My bank has frozen everything now as I got to the branch at 9AM when it opened. I have also reached every charging company except for one and all of them have been cooperative.
The one that I have been unable to reach is called Hosting Solutions of Orem, UT. So I did a web search and found this strange web page:
Hosting Solutions but not the one I'm looking for... .
Seemingly, if you click the link, hosting solutions has done this before if I'm reading into the page correctly.
Now I'm waiting untill 12PM EST to call the number that is on the web page as I have called it already and they do not open until 9AM PST.
I suspect someone has stolen my info online OR when I used my card in Mexico, someone copied the information. ccbill.co and ibillcs.com have told me that they have the ISP addresses of the party to blame and have the means to track such charges, so this could be intesting.
I'll keep you all posted.
I would like to thank MG in NJ for his advice.
Peace,
Joe Tall