Description

Same as another victim reported. Ad pop-up from a game (WWF) shows absolutely authentic looking "L.L.BEAN OUTLET" Clearance Sale website. searchable and filterable on products, full product descriptions, mimics the REAL AUTHENTIC website. Clothing size, color, etc are selectable and added to cart. Discounted total shown at end. detail items you select are shown at check out and in a purchase confirmation email. You register an acct with your email and a password. Password change and that confirmation email also works. this is a very complex and convincing but 100% fraudulent scam. At the bottom of the web page the links to "About Us", "Service", etc. lead to bogus, partial, sub-par grammar and 404 errors. I learned this too late unfortunately. My gut feeling to the fraud happened next morning when i went on the real L.L.BEAN website and was surprised they had no record of my email as a registered user. soon after I recieved the scammer's emails that my credit card was being charged...and that I should be aware there would be and additional "foreign currency transaction fee". "Oh F@$&", or something similar were my immediate thoughts/words aloud. Scammer's email also notes credit card charge will show up as "SILKQS* SILQS". I immediately called my credit card company and reported. Cancelled the card number and already have the replacement in hand 2 days later. He advised me it wasn't actually fraud since i entered the card number voluntarily (WTF!?). The best he could do was tag the charge as "DISPUTED". Note: the charge had not yet appeared on MY log-in to my CC account when I called, but the CC help guy DID see it on his end. It was a day later when the $53.32 and $1.59 charges DID appear on my end. COUNTRY OF SCAMMER CHARGE APPEARED AS SINGAPORE on my CC details of the charge. Apparently, my CC company "approved" the charge as legitimate immediately, so now I'm stuck with owning payment (CHASE btw). p.s. I am a very skeptical suspicious careful, maybe even slightly paranoid, person. No debt, never pay CC interest. This time I let my guard down...it won't happen again :(