Scam Warning
Last night I was looking over our joint bank account when I spotted something like this:
CHECKCARD CIC*CE CREDIT REP
8003888725 CA ON 02/15
$9.95
Laura and I both had no idea what this was, so I went into our banking history and I found 3 more transactions like this, once per month between the 15th and 20th, since November. wtf??? Laura had the idea to call that 800 number to find out what the deal was. btw, if you search that number in google you will pull up a few scam alerts. Not cool. So she calls, and reaches someone at a credit "protection" business. She asks why we're being billed by a company we've never heard of and the person on the other line says "I don't know, let me have your social security number and bank account and I can help you." I love my wife. I would not be suprised if that person quit their job after speaking with her. Any way, we got nowhere with them over the phone, so the next step is to talk to our bank and figure out how to get our $40 back and stop the automatic monthly withdrawl from our account. What I don't understand is don't you have to sign something or do some sort of authorization to set up a bank account withdrawl like that? It can't be that easy to just take money out of someone's account, can it? Moral of the story: check your accounts! I'm sorry we let it go for this long.
CHECKCARD CIC*CE CREDIT REP
8003888725 CA ON 02/15
$9.95
Laura and I both had no idea what this was, so I went into our banking history and I found 3 more transactions like this, once per month between the 15th and 20th, since November. wtf??? Laura had the idea to call that 800 number to find out what the deal was. btw, if you search that number in google you will pull up a few scam alerts. Not cool. So she calls, and reaches someone at a credit "protection" business. She asks why we're being billed by a company we've never heard of and the person on the other line says "I don't know, let me have your social security number and bank account and I can help you." I love my wife. I would not be suprised if that person quit their job after speaking with her. Any way, we got nowhere with them over the phone, so the next step is to talk to our bank and figure out how to get our $40 back and stop the automatic monthly withdrawl from our account. What I don't understand is don't you have to sign something or do some sort of authorization to set up a bank account withdrawl like that? It can't be that easy to just take money out of someone's account, can it? Moral of the story: check your accounts! I'm sorry we let it go for this long.