CRC Customer fraud makes "EL Reg"!
Raymondavalon
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There was a Thread about 10 days or so back about CRC customers who paid with credit cards becoming victims of fraudulent transactions.
CRC were pretty mum on the whole affair, but...
Today, the story has been published by The Register
CRC were pretty mum on the whole affair, but...
Today, the story has been published by The Register
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Yes... Good job I haven't bought any new components in a while either. Although I did check my account for acitvity... you know... just to be sure...Advocate of disc brakes.0
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A quote from the Comments section of the CRC Fraud article in El RegThe card transactions probably aren't handled by CRC themselves, but on a third part server. As such you can bet that if the third party was hacked there will be other retailers involved too.
The reasons CRC were the first to be outed in a big way would be (a) cycling accounts for a huge amount of online spending (although every cyclist claims to support their local bike shop) and (b) cyclists seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time on forums rather than out on their bikes.
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Well thats clearly liesRaymondavalon wrote:A quote from the Comments section of the CRC Fraud article in El RegThe card transactions probably aren't handled by CRC themselves, but on a third part server. As such you can bet that if the third party was hacked there will be other retailers involved too.
The reasons CRC were the first to be outed in a big way would be (a) cycling accounts for a huge amount of online spending (although every cyclist claims to support their local bike shop) and (b) cyclists seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time on forums rather than out on their bikes.
Loving the a, b & c points...
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