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We use a certain business for our accounting software subscription. He called our office with specific information concerning the renewal of our subscription. He knew the date and credit card I had on file with them. We had some recent fraud on the card so I was not surprised when it was not going through. So he asked for another card. I gave him several cards of other employees, none of which worked. He then insisted that I wire the money to to the business because our subscription was expiring soon, which was another lie. We had a week with 11 days grace period that I was not aware of. He could have only known that by hacking into our account on their website. Unfortunately our credit card said they would not let the card go through because of problems with the merchant in the past. I thought it was because of recent fraud on one of our cards that I had reported and had to cancel the card. I did not realize the business name he was using was a fraudulent similarity to the company we actually did have an account with. I should have known not to wire the funds. My bank is still trying to get a refund, but the bank he used will not release any personal information so we are at a loss of where to go from here. I will have to pay the subscription again to stay current and pray they don't get hacked into this time. All together it will be about $6000 we've lost to this thief!