Premier Cruise/Credit Cards ?
Premier Cruise/Credit Cards? To all who used any type of credit card in booking a Premier Cruise watch
out. Yesterday I was checking my accounts and discovered that on 9/23/00
monies are just being taken out of my account. The charges are coming from
Russia via.
Panama. The bank does think that someone from
Premier or an affiliate got my numbers. What a mess. I loose my money for a
cruise, now some idiot is just wacking my debit card as they please.
I have cancelled all my cards. If anyone has this
similar problem let me know. They charges will show up from Moscow and theu
company shown is www.inetplat.com.
-This is EXACTLY why no matter what you NEVER should give your credit card
info AND social security number to these people. Obviously you will not
have to pay these fraudulent charges BUT knowing that someone dishonest ALSO
has access to your social security number, your address, your emergency
contact and other info is just way too scary. I am sure that number was
sold to someone's uncle or brother in law to do with exactly what your
explaining. Imagine that the next time one of those enchanted officers from
such exotic places gets hold of your info. JUST DON'T DO IT.
-Actually, if you follow your advice, then there isn't any reason to have a
credit card, since you can't trust anybody you give the numbers to. Can't
use them at the restaurant where the waiter is making $2 per hour, certainly
not to rent a car with the clerk making minimum wage, and don't ever write
the number on your check when you pay your credit card bill, the person at
the bank may be collecting numbers too.
Also, since she said it was a debit card, then the protections may not be as
much as with a credit card.
This can happen down the street, it can happen half way around the world, it
can happen anyplace. And unless Premier is the only place you used the card
then the number could have been gotten from any place you used it, by
somebody looking over your shoulder in a store, or somebody using one of the
many pieces of software out there to generate valid credit card numbers
(they are not in sequence, they follow a set pattern, and if you download
the software available everywhere on line, put in one valid number for your
bank, it will generate a thousand numbers that would be valid for your
bank).
If you use a credit card, then there is a chance of fraud. If you pay with
a check, then somebody can record your routing and transit numbers, account
number, and clean out your account. A few years ago somebody put up fake
ATM's and collected account numbers and Pin's and went on a spending spree.
Unless you pay for everything in cash with money under your mattress there
is a chance this will happen, it's part of the risk of using credit cards,
it always has been way before the Internet and the rest, and until AMEX and
the others come out with their one time use card numbers it always will be,
but to say not to give your number to anybody is just foolish.