Looking over my bank statement this last weekend I discovered a $9.00 charge
from a company list as TERRA, somewhere in Florida, with a toll free number
(877-340-2372) called the number and went straight to an answering machine.
Googled the number and found several people complaining the same thing
happening to them. Small charges like this are likely overlooked by most
people, the frightening part though is that my check card number was
compromised. Now assuming that it was probably stolen during the Christmas
holidays I can only come up a possible four places where it might have been
leaked, (assuming the loss occurred on line or over the phone), See's
candies, Omaha steaks, Time Life or Pay Pal, and of the four only See's
candies had a screwed up web sight. If this happened to anybody else here
see if you can spot a convergence. Find the leak, plug the leak and if
lucky send somebody to jail.
WindsorFox - 16 Jan 2008 23:12 GMT
> Looking over my bank statement this last weekend I discovered a $9.00 charge
> from a company list as TERRA, somewhere in Florida, with a toll free number
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> see if you can spot a convergence. Find the leak, plug the leak and if
> lucky send somebody to jail.
Did you ever figure what it was for?

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John B. - 17 Jan 2008 19:52 GMT
> Looking over my bank statement this last weekend I discovered a $9.00 charge
> from a company list as TERRA, somewhere in Florida, with a toll free number
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> see if you can spot a convergence. Find the leak, plug the leak and if
> lucky send somebody to jail.
The scammers that charge only a few dollars to your account are actually the
smartest. As you said, most people will figure that the time to take
tracking it down just isn't worth it. So, these thieves get $9 here, $7
there, $3 somewhere else --- it adds up if they have a whole bunch of
account numbers they can do this over repeatedly over a "safe" period of
time. The wiley (and patient) crooks are the scariest, for sure.
John B.