Keep an eye out on your CC statements for TheLadders.com
While doing my monthly filing (yeah, I only do it once a month) I noticed a $180.00 charge from a company called TheLadders.com and it confused me. So I typed in the website and ended up at a career/job/resume/whatever website that promotes itself as having the most $100k jobs listed. I immediately called my credit card company to dispute the charges. While on the phone I remembered two things …
- I received a letter about two weeks ago about how a batch of cards were possibly compromised
- I remembered someone I know who had the same charge appear on their company’s credit card and they too did not know anything about the company and disputed the charge.
After about 5 minutes on the phone with my credit card company, I filed the dispute, cancelled the credit card, and will be receiving a new card in the mail. I did hesitate for a minute about the cancelling and having a brand new credit card sent my way because of all my automated payments, but I knew this would be the more secure option available. I then went back to the website to see what it was all about and I’m 99.9999999% sure the reason they uses TheLadders.com was because it pays $72.00 per 12 month membership ($180.00), so whoever is doing this is most likely hoping a few percent of those who had their cards compromised will just overlook the charge and the people can pocket $72.00.
I will now be going over all my credit card statements line-by-line when they come in the mail and most likely keep track of them on a weekly basis online.
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