A New Credit Card Scam Hopes to Fly Under Your Radar

Ah, the cleverness of a credit card fraudster has no limits!  This week brings news of a potential new scam that’s intended to siphon away your money by adding small, relatively innocuous charges to your credit card.  Charges appear from Adele Services in Melville, NY for amounts as small as $0.20.  The catch is that there is no such company as Adele Services, the Boston Globe reports.

The gig seems to be that Adele — or whoever these fraudsters really are — will make millions of dollars by quietly attacking many millions of unsuspecting credit users.  If I am being optimistic, I might guess this means that the average credit fraudster has realized that the days of pulling off conspicuous spending sprees on stolen credit have come to an end.  But if I am being more realistic, I know that this more likely spells the start of a time when thieves try to skirt the detection systems set up by running smaller frauds over a larger base of customers.

We founded ReputationDefender to help people stop certain kinds of fraud before it has a chance to hurt them.  Since our business offers different types of subscriptions, we always want to make sure people know what types of charges appear from us on their credit cards.  Our transaction will always say “Reputation” right on them, alongside our 1-800 number and our home state of California (marked by CA).  If your charge doesn’t look like our example below, it’s not us!  Feel free to give us a call and we’ll make sure you get to the bottom of the problem immediately.

We also encourage you to check out our credit card loss prevention tips.  Follow these and you should have a healthy, fraud free credit card life.