credit card fraud

[rogin]

I just found out, that someone used my credit card  number to go on an online shopping spree.
This is such a fucking nightmare and I want to know how that asshole got my number.  Last thing I used it online for (aside from amazon, who has the number for years and where I don't have to enter the number) was to pay for my LJ subscribtion in december. I doubt that they have the number from there, but it's still disturbing...
Most likely I caught some spyware. Arg I hate this, no more credit cards for me. Someone went shopping for 2000 Euro on my card and that's only what I can see so far. Looks like I caught it early enough though and won't have to pay any of the bills. *fingers crossed*

Person at the police was extremely unhelpfull (in terms of obviously having no idead about computers at all...9, I really hope they catch the bastard.

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[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Arg, how annoying for your husband too! Fortunately the credit card company wont charge me for the fraud, but still I'd like to have the idiot caught. Especially since he didn't do stuff that isn't retracable, he ordered at douglas and dell. so they must have sent him stuff and he must have given them an address.

If the case isn't handled by some total nitwit (like the guy at the policestation) it should be an easy catch.

I tried to contact the websites where the stuff was ordered, to get the address myself, but I doubt they'll answer me. BTW the douglas homepage is horrible and their email support not working. creeps.

ETA: was so agitated that I forgot what I wanted to ask: How does this cloning work, because the cc firm said that there were also several unsuccessful tries to buy stuff with the number, where maybe someone could not provide the correct address or date of birth.

[shapinglight]

I'm afraid I don't know how it actually works. Sorry.