any body actually catch the fact that the OP is from Germany, and he made purchases from American based Internet companies?
don't assume that the rules we have in the USA for credit card fraud are the same elsewhere, and definitely do not assume that international charges carry the same protection as domestic charges do.
chances are the OP is out the $4,000 if his government (I have no idea) doesn't have the same type of rules and regulations regarding fraudulent credit card transactions as the US Gov't has.
saw a similar thread on the mopar forums from a guy in Sweden several years back, and he was basically SOL for $3000 in an exhaust system and shipping he "bought" online from an American Internet company that never shipped the item and had international calls blocked on their phone service so he couldn't call them.
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I got hit by this scam last week, 3 transactions for under 50 cents, bank caught it, and then a $3,600 transaction tried to come thru..
still waiting for my replacement Debit card..
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Originally Posted by strych9
There's a recent scam where thieves are using a computer to generate possible CC number combinations, and they test them on a small purchase. If it works, they go for the big score. It happened to me, and my bank caught it right away. They called me before allowing the "big" charge. They refunded the small charge, changed my CC number and no problems since.
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