Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Questions and Answers
We accidentally clicked some "discount coupon" on eBay claiming this "Smartycashback" company can half-price some product. Our credit card then ended up being automatically charged 8 times within 8 weeks, all for non-existant purchases. The charges on our credit card listings always show this company as "Smartycashback.com 310-593-4557CA" or "Shipmentsfree.com 310-593-4557CA"
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Prebooked parking at Opera House Sydney, have to enter credit card details and this pop up comes, you try and get rid of it and now it has my credit card details and taking $19 plus INTL processing fee every month, cancel your credit card ASAP to anyone if you see it and have just paid for something, its stolen your details in a second
Scam! I never signed up and it deducted $19 for 3 consecutive months and I realised when I checked my credit card bill. I called my credit card provider and explained the situation because you cannot sign out from a ghost account!. They blocked my card, and now it is in resolution, hopefully I will get my money back from Citibank (not the scammer), the first transaction was for $3 USD (I live in Australia), they test with a small amount and then continue until YOU stop it. Another US based scam also detected, I was lucky that a third was flagged by Citi, so if you see any transaction for very small amount call your bank. You will get another card and it is a bother, but at least you stop these criminals on time.
Hi all. I stupidly used smarty cashback. I went to the movie theater a few weeks ago and when checking out with the tickets online, a smarty cashback appeared that I could get $15 cashback. I thought the movie theater company had some agreement between it but now I realize i was scammed. Well I entered my debit card number and as soon as I found out (the same day) it was a scam I quickly deleted the smarty account. I emailed them and requested a refund and they asked for my FULL debit card number? No way in h**l I will be doing that. I lost $22 from them. It’s not a huge deal but what should/can i do? Just close my card? Here’s the email they sent me.
