[itsjust4fun91]

My identity was stolen several years back from an online purchase with a well known chain. Not only was it stolen but it was posted on a middle eastern website along with about 20,000 other victims for criminals to go through and pick and choose which identity they wanted to purchase. When it's overseas, there is really nothing our country can do about it. It was a nightmare, to include that when I cancelled my card and their purchases were halted, as pay back they ordered an expensive case of wine from a winery with another stolen card and had it sent to me to make it look like I was using stolen cards. I was a wreck, until we got a handle on things. My credit card company was fantastic. They simply issued me a new card with a new account number and refunded all the bogus purchases. The police were sympathetic and I could tell that they felt terrible that their hands were so tied, but the cards have a major protocol that they follow and pursue the criminals. In the end, it was the credit card that was able to have the website shut down for all the vicitms. They were also the ones that handled the criminal side of it too, dealing with the feds and pushing the case through. It makes sense really since they reimburse and it's really them that end up being out of the money in the end when something like this happens. Rest assured that a person can't do something like this without paying the price thanks to how seriously our card companies take these types of actions. But, if no one has attempted to make a purchase with your card, the only hing hey will do is change your card number, since nothing criminal has yet occurred.

I've always stated in my other post the things I like about BB and the things I don't like about them. I'll be the first to say, it made me a bit nervous handing my card info over to Julie last summer over the phone, but I decided to do it. Once I made that choice, I knew full well after my experience years back, that anything could happen. I think we all do when we are making any number of purchases with our cards, so I was prepared as usual but hopeing for the best.

A company as large as BB isn't going to stop at just firing a criminal either. I'm pretty certain that criminal charges are being looked into also. BB is trying to clean up a mess, and I think it best to see what the outcome is in the end before judging them on this incident.

Mel