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<blockquote data-quote="PGB1" data-source="post: 1948883" data-attributes="member: 76746">&quot;I think that you almost certainly delt with a sketchy vendor of some type, and that's where things went wrong.&quot;I'd bet is isn't s sketchy vendor. The only vendor with whom I used the card was AT&amp;T on their https:// site. I doubt they stole the data. (Been going there for years to pay the invoice.) Instantly after that transaction, the thief started trying transactions with my card number on Amazon, Walmart, etc.&quot;I CAN tell you that the answer is almost never that your Macintosh is insecure or that it has malware.&quot;That is good to know. I wrote my original question to ask if I can check for such things, but apparently it isn't needed.&quot;In the magstripe scam, the bad guys shoplift gift cards from the store, take them and read their information using magnetic strip readers, and then return them to the rack in the store.&quot;There is no stripe on this card. It was sent to me digitally.I still wonder where the leak was. I guess there is no way to know.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PGB1, post: 1948883, member: 76746"] [I]"I think that you almost certainly delt with a sketchy vendor of some type, and that's where things went wrong."[/I] I'd bet is isn't s sketchy vendor. The only vendor with whom I used the card was AT&T on their https:// site. I doubt they stole the data. (Been going there for years to pay the invoice.) Instantly after that transaction, the thief started trying transactions with my card number on Amazon, Walmart, etc. [I]"I CAN tell you that the answer is almost never that your Macintosh is insecure or that it has malware."[/I] That is good to know. I wrote my original question to ask if I can check for such things, but apparently it isn't needed. [I]"In the magstripe scam, the bad guys shoplift gift cards from the store, take them and read their information using magnetic strip readers, and then return them to the rack in the store."[/I] There is no stripe on this card. It was sent to me digitally. I still wonder where the leak was. I guess there is no way to know. [/QUOTE]

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