advice Bank Fraud When Using Cards for Domain Transactions

[Pusang Gala]

Hi everyone, I recently became a victim of bank fraud involving unauthorized transactions, resulting in a loss of around $7K. This experience has made me extremely cautious about using my bank and credit cards for domain transactions. This is the first time something like this has happened to me, and I’ve been using this card (not my primary card) for domaining since I started in 2015.
Given that buying and selling domains often requires using these cards, I'm curious about the strategies you all employ to avoid such incidents.

Questions:

Do you use separate cards for purchasing domains and receiving payouts from domain sales?
After receiving funds from a sale, do you transfer them immediately to another account, such as your primary account card?
Additionally, are there any other security measures or best practices you follow to protect yourself from fraud? Any advice or insights you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[SixFigures.ltd]

I don't get it, did you somehow compromised your card info including cvv code? 3d secure and other forms of two-step verification is everywhere (i guess), how is that happened?
Sorry for your loss.

 

[Pusang Gala]

I don't get it, did you somehow compromised your card info including cvv code? 3d secure and other forms of two-step verification is everywhere (i guess), how is that happened?
Sorry for your loss.

I didn't compromise my card info or CVV code. I always take precautions to protect my information. Despite that, the unauthorized transactions still occurred. I suspect this might be an inside job from my bank, as I've heard other people with the same bank complaining about similar issues.

 

[SixFigures.ltd]

inside job from my bank

I would doubt that. Probably some fishing

 

[bmugford]

In the US at least, pretty much all major banks protect against unauthorized charges especially with credit cards.

https://www.usnews.com/banking/articles/how-do-banks-handle-unauthorized-transactions

In your case, I have no idea what is going on.

Brad

 

[Gabriel360]

Sounds like you don't even know the source of the fraud. A domain platform or your bank.

First thing is to figure that out to prevent something like that from happening again.

Next is to get a Paypal account if you don't have one. Then link a credit card to the PayPal account and use Paypal for your domain purchases.

Also, have you tried to initiate a chargeback on the credit card?

 

[silentg]

I would try to compile a list of all the sites you have used your bank card at and check to see if they had a data breach.

Get a credit card so you can use it to pay for domains and then use your bank card to pay off the balance. This way you don't carry a balance on the credit card.

 

[ran_doank]

Just let say you never share card details, Are you 100% sure nobody(your family,friend,gf etc) know or using your card? Also almost all bank have internal fraud departments that investigate unauthorized transactions / customer disputes, they can check everything related to the trx. IMO you should change your bank ASAP, if not possible- ask for brand new card. but its will be useless if you falling to phising site.

 

[Pusang Gala]

Update: I have reported this issue to my bank, and they are currently investigating it. They have informed me that they will provide an update within 5-7 banking days.

 

[Pusang Gala]

Just let say you never share card details, Are you 100% sure nobody(your family,friend,gf etc) know or using your card? Also almost all bank have internal fraud departments that investigate unauthorized transactions / customer disputes, they can check everything related to the trx. IMO you should change your bank ASAP, if not possible- ask for brand new card. but its will be useless if you falling to phising site.

I can assure you that I never shared my card details with anyone, including family, friends, or anyone else. Moreover, the unauthorized transactions I encountered were from locations outside my country. My bank has already closed my old card and issued me a new one.

 

[Surya Giri Kurniawan]

It is from phising. There are 3 possible scenarios :

1. You feel your credit card detail in fake website. For example, most fake website offer you to download an app, music, photo for free as trial, but you must file a credit card info. The app, the music, the photo are not their legal properties, they only collect your credit card info.
2. There is a back door in your Smartphone, and the hacker can see what you type in Smartphone including Whatsapp, Email, password. It can be if you had install back door app accidently.
3. You bought with credit card in a legit website, but the legit website became a victim of data breach.

 

[pb]

I rarely save card details anywhere, especially at small registrars. I always try to use payment intermediaries such as paypal. If you used your card at Epik, then remember they had a data breach including card details. Not sure about other countries but in the EU there's an obligatory "2fa" for online card payments introduced by the PSD2 bill. It's cumbersome but it works.

 

[AEProgram]

Billions are stolen a month from peoples credit cards and the numbers keep going up because more people use them.

If you want to lower the chances of fraud you will need to get cards that let you generate control who bills and what amount they can bill, plus a card that lets you turn the thing off. Privacy dot com is one option. People usually use these solutions after they got robbed.

I know the feeling is horrible and I wish you well.

 

[biggie]

I have reported this issue to my bank, and they are currently investigating it.

Hi

probably should have done that first, before posting.

still, we hope you get favorable results.

imo...

 

[Pusang Gala]

Hi

probably should have done that first, before posting.

still, we hope you get favorable results.

imo...

I did call their 24/7 support immediately since it was 10 PM and outside office hours. Unfortunately, the line was busy, and I couldn’t get through for two hours.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I hope you get resolution for the situation, and various people have provided good suggestions.

I am not sure if you can still change title, but it is unfortunate, since as I understand it there is no specific evidence that this necessarily has anything to do with a domain transaction unless that is the only place you used that card, and not necessarily even then. As per scenarios people outline above.

I would not use a credit card with any provider, domain or otherwise, that I do not have full trust in.

I hope you get a positive reply. Usually the banks will reverse charges, and normally issue a new card if they find an unauthorized use.

-Bob

 

[Altetra]

Your topic title is confusing, it sounds as Registrars are fraudulent when charging for domain related transactions.
edit: Although I had issues paying for domains, my Bank was blocking transactions to Epik, Porkbun and sometimes at Cosmotown, because they have think i play gambling games.

 

[Pusang Gala]

Your topic title is confusing, it sounds as Registrars are fraudulent when charging for domain related transactions.
edit: Although I had issues paying for domains, my Bank was blocking transactions to Epik, Porkbun and sometimes at Cosmotown, because they have think i play gambling games.

I apologize for any confusion caused by the title. My intent was to discuss strategies for avoiding bank fraud when using cards for domain transactions, not to imply that registrars are fraudulent.

 

[Altetra]

I apologize for any confusion caused by the title. My intent was to discuss strategies for avoiding bank fraud when using cards for domain transactions, not to imply that registrars are fraudulent.

No problem, I share my exp, but as many point it is better to have a 3rd party company like Paypal to process CC payments and I agree that this is the best way, even when my Bank bans the transactions Paypal saves my a**.

 

[DomainRecap]

I never use my bank card for anything as that's real money and once you lose it, the banks (no matter what they say in their ads about being "fully protected from fraud") do not want to give it back to you without a fight. Banks are also lazy as crap when it comes to due diligence and will just give your money away like candy to fraudsters & criminals, then refuse to do anything to help under the guise of "you didn't protect your bank card".

I have a $500 withdrawal limit on my bank card, I have removed Tap, and I only use it for bank inquiries and online account info. The less you use your bank card the less your numbers and codes are floating around in the ether.

For everything else I use a low-limit credit card for all online purchases and monitor it constantly. VISA and MC are much, much, much better about monitoring transactions and helping customers when fraud takes place. I had a crazy Uber driver jacking my VISA in Florida and VISA immediately reversed the charges and issued me a new card.

If that's my bank card they used, I'm in a whole lot of trouble getting even a penny back.

Do not trust banks to do anything to help their customers out, as their only interest is money. If you lost money to fraud or other criminal activity, then you are now their enemy. Remember that.