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Perfect world is considered "high risk" by bank of america.

verusisraelverusisrael Member Posts: 93 Arc User
edited July 2012 in C-Store, ZEN, and Promotions
this is the 2nd card I'v had to have issued in under a month. first time I bought $20 worth of zen. B&A immediately closed my card and called me informing me my card had been compromised and they would be sending me a new card. Last night I made a purchase of $50 (got me some fleet ships to buy!) but alas this morning I was awoken to B&A fraud protection informing me my card had been compromised once again. They only do this when the person getting your money has been flagged for being compromised somehow (however legally they can't name the company till the company has made it public themselves). My question is: has there been a leak at perfect world or whatever company they use for the transactions or is my bank just being overzealous?
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  • mikewendellmikewendell Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Yes. Back in 2010 although we just found out about it a few months ago.

    Give me a sec and I'll get the links.

    edit: http://www.gamespot.com/news/star-trek-online-dev-discovers-2010-server-hack-6373618

    reedit: In their defense, I run a small webhosting company. Even though we're fully incorporated and all the rest, because we were an internet company we were rated medium risk for the first couple (3?) years.

    rereedit: heh Probably some BofA employee is a Klingon fan and this is their payback. :D
  • marc8219marc8219 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    BofA is a joke, they are the ones that are high risk with the 50 trillion+ derivative exposure they have. That bank is going to blow up any day now and need another round of bailouts.

    My small local bank never has any problem with Perfect World transactions in this game or another PWE game I played.
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  • blargskullblargskull Member Posts: 98 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Seriously, it is really simple matter of some teens getting a hold of Daddy's credit card and buying stuff on PWE or other places online. Then Daddy gets the bill and reports fraud. The company flags PWE's Credit provider NOT PWE itself. I believe they use Moneybookers? If you want to avoid the hassle you could go to any 7-11 (assuming you live in the US) and buy a prepaid Zen card. That's what I do anyway.
  • matteo716maikaimatteo716maikai Member Posts: 823
    edited July 2012
    paypal makes the world go round.
  • eiledoneiledon Member Posts: 595 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    in 2010 PWE didn't even own Cryptic - Atari did. The data loss happened under the previous owner's watch. Since PWE have taken owner they have at least attempted to introduce greater security. Additionally PWE do not directly get any credit card information as far as i am aware - this is handled by whichever intermediary payment solution you have chosen when purchasing zen.
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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    verusisrael wrote: »
    this is the 2nd card I'v had to have issued in under a month. first time I bought $20 worth of zen. B&A immediately closed my card and called me informing me my card had been compromised and they would be sending me a new card. Last night I made a purchase of $50 (got me some fleet ships to buy!) but alas this morning I was awoken to B&A fraud protection informing me my card had been compromised once again. They only do this when the person getting your money has been flagged for being compromised somehow (however legally they can't name the company till the company has made it public themselves). My question is: has there been a leak at perfect world or whatever company they use for the transactions or is my bank just being overzealous?
    I use BoA and just bought $10.00 worth of Zen on my FTP account to see what will happen. I'll post tomorrow if my card gets flagged - or whenever I get an email from BoA saying there's a problem.

    If my card doesn't get flagged I suggest you check your computer for spyware or other type of viruses that might be reading the card info as you're typing it into various websites when you buy things.
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  • beezle23beezle23 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Paypal and/or buying a card from a physical location FTW.
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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Just checking in to say no calls, no emails, no flags, no closing of my BoA card - I just bought something from Amazon with it and it worked fine.

    If I were the OP I'd do some serious virus scans and check my firewalls.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • kar1972kar1972 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    matteo716maikai wrote: »
    paypal makes the world go round.

    Ditto! But slow....

    And for European players, Paysafe Card. :cool:
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  • blargskullblargskull Member Posts: 98 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I live 3 blocks from a 7-11 store that sells the Zen card. However I was at the credit union and the teller told me I can get VISA gift cards at no additional cost, much safer to use for online purchases. I had my credit union flag the bank card once and when I talked to them about it, they said someone was trying to put money into my account. I said, "And you stopped them!?" LoL
  • paragonexileparagonexile Member Posts: 49 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    My Perfect World account is so secure that I am utterly unable to access it or buy any zen. Maybe the criminals will have better luck.
  • darkjeffdarkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    blargskull wrote: »
    I had my credit union flag the bank card once and when I talked to them about it, they said someone was trying to put money into my account. I said, "And you stopped them!?" LoL

    The bank my company uses also has stupid stuff like this. I walk in there with a deposit book for the account, intending to deposit 5 digits worth of cheques like we normally do, like the other 30 pages in the deposit book shows.

    They wanted me to use a (non-existent) bank card and PIN to verify. Seriously? "We have to make sure nobody's handing out $50k worth of cheques!"
  • lordhooklordhook Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    paragonexile wrote: »
    My Perfect World account is so secure that I am utterly unable to access it or buy any zen. Maybe the criminals will have better luck.

    Well said. :D
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