So, I was the victim of credit card fraud. What's even better is that VISA only caught it because a I made multipule (legit) charges at the same location within minutes (sometimes I'm a little scatter-brained). Although, to be fair, I didn't catch these bogus recurring charges on any of my statements either.
OK - lesion learned. check credit card statements more carefully.
How does this relate to the subject matter of my blog you ask?
The company that charged me is called epoch.com - they are a credit card processor (who are notorious for this). Epoch also charges cards under tons of other names.
Epoch is one of the main credit card processors for Groby Productions.
Groby Produces transsexual themed porn web sites and videos. So, because being a kinda average guy, and not being ashamed to admit that I sometimes look at dirty pictures on the internet that cater to my sexuality - I got totally ripped off!
So here's my word of warning; I have no idea if Groby is implicit in credit card fraud, however, Epoch.com is well documented as a bad apple. And, a simple google search reveals complaints of fraud by Epoch all over the internet. So, why would any honest business continue any connection with a known group of crooks? From what I understand, what happens is, Epoch often pays kick-backs to websites for continuing a business relationship with them - and the websites don't ask questions. This whole thing is fishy.
OK - lesion learned, don't expect exploitive internet smut peddlers to be anything other then sleazy and corrupt.
D.
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Whoever would'a thunk it? ;-)
I did find a silver lining, though. I found out that in the old days smut merchants would blackmail their customers - at least I only had to call VISA and not the "Black Hand"
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