Any old RegisterFly customers finding HUGE charges on your account?

[brizzad]

A few months ago a friend of mine called saying he had a charge on his debit card for $993 and had no clue where it came from. He said right before the charge there was a small 30 cent charge, most likely it was just a charge to see if the card was active before going through with the huge charge.

This morning I noticed a charge for $992, and right before that there was a small 9 cent charge. The only information I can pull up on the charge is that it was from Western Union, and they said my bank would have to subpoena them before they could give up any information.

After speaking with that friend, we came to the conclusion that the only place we have both used those specific cards to make purchases is with RegisterFly. (we do use the same host, but i use a different credit card for that)

Also, he lives about an hour away, so it's not like our cards were used at the same local store or anything. I know it's getting a bit overplayed to blame registerfly for everything, but we just find it weird that Registerfly is the only place that we have both used these specific debit/credit cards. Obviously since Registerfly is out of business this isnt an attempt to bash their reputation.

 

[Kate]

'Western Union' shouldn't show up on your statement then. I would suspect your card details were abused and you would better cancel the card now.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Registerfly's being "out of business" isn't exactly correct, somehow. I'm not in the mood to risk my time/money, but they are still taking registrations despite the big warning posted on their front page.

As far as your card goes, dispute the charges immediately (Western Union has served its purpose in life; time for it to go away.), and get a new card number and you might as well pull your credit report and make sure nothing else fishy is going on.

-Allan

 

[Kate]

Oh I see the big announcement on their site now.

NOTICE TO CONSUMERS.
THE INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS - THE NON FOR PROFIT ENTITY THAT ADMINISTERS THE INTERNET'S DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM, HAS ISSUED A NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF THIS COMPANY'S ACCREDITATION TO SERVE AS AN INTERNET DOMAIN NAME REGISTRAR.
PLEASE SEE WWW.ICANN.ORG FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

Perhaps they are now using a reseller account (Tucows) or not registering the names at all...

 

[jim]

A few months ago a friend of mine called saying he had a charge on his debit card for $993 and had no clue where it came from. He said right before the charge there was a small 30 cent charge, most likely it was just a charge to see if the card was active before going through with the huge charge.

This morning I noticed a charge for $992, and right before that there was a small 9 cent charge. The only information I can pull up on the charge is that it was from Western Union, and they said my bank would have to subpoena them before they could give up any information.

After speaking with that friend, we came to the conclusion that the only place we have both used those specific cards to make purchases is with RegisterFly. (we do use the same host, but i use a different credit card for that)

Also, he lives about an hour away, so it's not like our cards were used at the same local store or anything. I know it's getting a bit overplayed to blame registerfly for everything, but we just find it weird that Registerfly is the only place that we have both used these specific debit/credit cards. Obviously since Registerfly is out of business this isnt an attempt to bash their reputation.

Only speculating but I also had a WESTERNUNION COM MONEY transaction (wiretransfer) for $492.99 along with a ALLDATA CORP #8604 , ELK GROVE , CA $29.99 ...They're being investigated by the C.C. company now...and yes the card was used at regfly and other places also...maybe only a coincidence

jim

 

[labrocca]

Oh please...I smell BS once again with RF. I wouldn't put it past these people trying really hard right now to gain all the money they can and leave the country. I firmly believe RF is under state or federal investigation for fraud and that one day Medina will be arrested. He might be trying to cash out right now and run. It's obvious he is a sleezy person so I don't put this past him.

 

[jim]

Well I just just got off the phone with my C.C companies fraud dept. and they're holding the merchants responsible for not following procedures (those 3 numbers on the back of the card). I guess it's upto the merchants now to track down the scum

jim

 

[dgridley]

I took my card info off Regfly long ago so hopefully I won't have a problem..

 

[RicoShay]

i thought they were good until they charged me 3 times for renewing a domain which they didnt renew at all and i lost it.

 

[brizzad]

Only speculating but I also had a WESTERNUNION COM MONEY transaction (wiretransfer) for $492.99 along with a ALLDATA CORP #8604 , ELK GROVE , CA $29.99 ...They're being investigated by the C.C. company now...and yes the card was used at regfly and other places also...maybe only a coincidence

jim

I also had a small charge from somewhere in CA right before the big charge hit. When I woke up this morning I went to the bank to get it checked out. When I got there they pulled my account up and the $992 charge was nowhere to be found and my account balance was back to normal. Because I'm an employee though they couldnt research it any further, I have to wait for employee customer service to open on Monday. Ill be back with more details hopefully.

 

[throwedoff]

I'm the friend brizzad mentioned with a similar problem...

I had a $992 Google Checkout charge a while back on the card which I use for RegisterFly (and damn near nothing else).


As brizzad mentioned, we use the same host, but I pay for that with paypal. I really do think this is stemming from RF.

 

[randomo]

I just looked around RF's site and couldn't figure out how to delete my credit card info. Anybody know? Thanks.

 

[SharonTucci]

This is really interesting.... I intentionally use a low limit credit card for online transactions. Early last week, there was a pending charge of $2 odd and I was totally baffled what it was for. It's a $500 limit card and I'd used it for a server bill so there was around $20 avail credit. I was only made aware of the pending charge when I received a call from my cc company asking if I needed my limit to be increased for a charge I'd made. I said I hadn't made one. A couple days later, the $2 pending charge was dropped. After seeing this thread, I'm going to call the CC company Monday to see if they can give me info on WHO attempted to place a charge specifically. All I was told at the time is that it was a charge out of NJ. (I'm in Canada FWIW) And coincidentally this is the last card I used with RF... I know that because they charged the card for domain renewals but the domains weren't renewed.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

I just looked around RF's site and couldn't figure out how to delete my credit card info. Anybody know? Thanks.

go to accounting>credit card management and then delete any cards. If you can't delete, then change to false numbers or a wrong expire date.

 

[jim]

Damn just got me again!!! Different account showing a pending charge $657..cancelled card and was told a .09 cent "test??" to livingtree ?? was submitted prior to a westernunion of the above amount..time to cancel all my cards..scum !!

jim

I took my card info off Regfly long ago so hopefully I won't have a problem..

BTW I also removed mine months ago...But ???

 

[irishmat]

just deleted my info, good spot guys

 

[jim]

Just got off the phone with westernunion as the transaction was "pending". Their validation dept. had already declined the transfer.

Interesting thing though is these scums can be using your C.C. #'s and get authorised by your C.C company and declined by westernunion without you even knowing it as it would only be a "hold" put on your account.
When westernunion declines the transaction it comes off "hold" and you don't even know they have your info 'til they find a new way of using it. I just happen to be checking my account online and saw the "hold"..If i checked it tommorow it wouldn't be there and I wouldn't of known someone had my #

jim

 

[AdoptableDomains]

With the registerfly database just sitting there with nobody watching it, it could be that hackers have gained access with on one to notice.

If this is the case, then Registerfly is looking at another suit for negligence in keeping data safe. Who knows, it could be a disgruntled former employee or someone who had access who sold access to the databased. If in fact that's where these are coming from, I'd definitely go in and delete any cards on your account if it isn't too late. I removed my cards a few months ago also, so I hope I'm okay.

 

[throwedoff]

Damn just got me again!!! Different account showing a pending charge $657..cancelled card and was told a .09 cent "test??" to livingtree ?? was submitted prior to a westernunion of the above amount..time to cancel all my cards..scum !!

jim



BTW I also removed mine months ago...But ???

Holy shit... living tree was the company that the 'test' charge was placed on brizzad's account from. I know this 100%, as I was talking to him before he posted this thread about the whole situation.


Edit: I posted about this over on digitalpoint also just now.

 

[jim]

Edit: I posted about this over on digitalpoint also just now.

I posted also at DNF...wait til people start getting their statments


jim