Some woman named Wendy in Minnesota is using her credit card to put digital gift cards on my #microsoft account. The gift cards appear to be legit -- I now have a $160 in #xbox credit.
Is this a #scam? #fraud? Have I been #hacked?
Whatever it is, I don't think she's doing it right.
and no, there's no obvious way to report this to Microsoft. And I desperately need to, because it appears for all intents and purposes that I have defrauded Wendy.
help?
update: it appears someone (Wendy?) has redeemed one of the digital gift cards
update 2: Wendy's mailing address is now my default billing/shipping address in my microsoft account
update 3: Wendy's addresses have disappeared from my account
update 4: both of the digital gift cards now appear to have been redeemed.
update 5: fraud report filed with microsoft; listing microsoft itself as the fraudulent company, given I've got nothing else to do while I wait to live chat with microsoft support.
update 6: WOW THAT WAS SOME CRAZY GASLIGHTY NOTMYJOB tech support from microsoft.
update 7: #microsoft DGAF if people are using stolen credit cards to make purchases using other people's accounts without actually signing into those accounts.
Online scams
@DrTCombs
Not saying that's what you're seeing.
I've also heard of the scam where someone sends you money (via PayPal/venmo, etc.) on a stolen card, and then sends a message saying it was their mistake, and asking to have the same amount sent back in a new transaction.
The stolen card transactions get cancelled, the mistaken money disappears. If the (second) victim sent a new transaction, then the payment service won't cancel the second transaction as it wasn't "fraudulent".
@DrTCombs
Yuck, but sounds so typical of every large corporation ever.
I've got an old Gmail account that a number of folks have mistakenly or lazily used for signing up for things. I'm often on alert for someone to try to scam me that way.