I just order some merchandise from meh,prompted to log on through amazon.com,the order was placed at night about 9pm or so,next morning got
1a call from my Credit Card company that somebody duplicated my card with 3 digit security and was withdrawing 800 dollars in New York,i told them that i am in Florida,so somebody took card number and security pin and duplicated the card from within this company's order department.Card company is sending me new card.Be careful if you place order with this company.
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I've never seen or heard of this happening here. I'm not saying it isn't possible, just that it's unlikely that it happened at meh.com - but it's worth looking into. You could and should shoot a message to meh.com/support and have them look into it, so they know if the issue was on their end.
post hoc is where it's at
Oh, that Glenn. What will he think of next?
How do you withdraw a cash advance from a credit card without the 4(+) digit PIN?
@nadroj Where are you based? CCs in the states don't have PINs, just signatures (and CVVs). Debit cards have PINs, but OP is talking about a cash advance on a CC, not debit.
@brhfl CC's in the states have PINs for cash advances. I learned that the hard way about 10 years ago in Vegas when I accidentally cash advanced my CC instead of making a withdrawal using my debit card.
@brhfl My CC's require a PIN for cash advances.
@DaveInSoCal @Thumperchick Interesting, I stand corrected! Only time I've ever witnessed a cash advance, it was not done with a PIN. Kind of absurd that regular transactions are still based on pointless signatures if that infrastructure is in place…
@brhfl I have several credit cards (not debit) that have chip and pin technology. If you look at your credit card and it has a small chip on the front of it, it's using the new technology. I hear by the end of 2015, all new credit cards issued will have the chip and pin tech and this will shift the burden of fraud losses from the banks to the consumer.
@cengland0 By every account I've heard, we'll be moving to chip and signature wayyyy before chip and PIN.
@brhfl There's a huge on-going debate raging about this over on Krebs on Security in the comment sections every time this comes up - I agree, chip and signature long before chip and PIN will be how this shakes out.
Although there is this Executive Order from Obama (I just don't know if it will get traction in the mainstream) https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/17/fact-sheet-safeguarding-consumers-financial-security
Apparently they are having so much trouble with it that they are now using both the new and current cards simultaneously as they can't use chip and PIN in enough places to continue to transact business as usual for the Federal government.
I'm confused on why it had to be someone at Meh who took it. It could just as easily have been someone somewhere else you've shopped or someone thats has hacked either your account somewhere or a somewhere you shop at. Is your claim based solely on the last purchase you made or can you actually link anything to Meh?
you likely have a compromised computer. or are trolling. of any number of things. correlation does not imply causation. as a paul harvey fan, i want to know the rest of the story.
@Headly Dang....I miss that guy and his wonderful stories.
@gan923 while I'm fairly confident we had nothing to do with this (we don't operate out of New York), this isn't the best place to discuss this kind of issue. Go ahead and contact our support team at https://meh.com/support
@JonT Are you able to account for Irk during this time? :-)
I'm pretty sure Amazon only gives vendors the fund, not the credit card information. I'm also pretty sure meh doesn't use Amazon Payments.
@AlohaSnackbar If they did, I wouldn't ever buy a thing. so if they do, please don't disillusion me
I think prompted to log on through Amazon says a lot. I'd say odds are high you've got a malware problem, and you weren't logging on to Amazon.
@djslack Mediocre allows you to log on via your Amazon account using openid. Pretty sure that's what the OP is referring to. Go sign out and back in to Meh and you'll see the buttons to sign in via Amazon or Google.
@mikey my bad, I stand corrected. Been quite some time since I logged in.
I bought a milkshake from mcdonalds, and then got mugged. Let this be a warning! Don't buy milkshakes from mcdonalds!
@thismyusername especially not a Shamrock Shake!
@TerriblyHuang that is just asking for it....
@TerriblyHuang nah. they are fine. it's the cherry on top that is the problem.
@Headly they don't really put a cherry on the mint shakes do they? eww... should be a mint sprig at the most.
@thismyusername Did you get mugged inside McDonalds and was it a McDonalds employee that mugged you?
@cengland0 not clear, so I blame mcdonalds!
@thismyusername yes, ever since they rolled out the "McCafe" Coffee bar, unless you specifically say NOT to, (end even then sometimes), they put whipped cream and a cherry on EVERY shake now.... and it's in one of the clear iced coffee type cups.
@thismyusername I hate when I go to McDonalds and Meh mugs me! DAMN IT MEH!
Holy fuck - DOG TOY ALERT déjà vu!
Tom, even a cursory search of Google will reveal your account info is all over the net. I recommend contacting your financial institution to issue new accounts and cards, and a full wipe & reinstall of your OS before ever shopping online with them.
@festercluck I don't re-use login / site aliases, and I do not duplicate passwords - but I am amazed at how many people do . . . following your lead, I believe I was able to gain access to Mr. Gan's credit report after finding his full social in the open. There's a lot more than this guy's account info all over the Internet - he could be a case study for why someone needs LifeLock.
@festercluck 1-Password FTW.
@Pavlov Holy crap
@Pavlov I wouldn't admit to that... hahaha
@dis_member All the info, including a cached copy of the credit report, was in the open. Not a problem when it is sitting in the open . . .
A guy at work bought a car outta the paper... Ten years later? BAM! Herpes.