Philliefan33
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Yesterday morning while DH and I were playing pickleball in PA, someone was using my walmart.com account to order curbside pickup of groceries and alcohol in CA.
For some reason I checked the messages on our landline when we got home (I rarely do that). There was a robocall about possible fraud on my Discover credit card, and I "must call immediately!". I ignored the phone number given and called the number on the back of my credit card, fully expecting the representative to tell me there were no alerts on my account. But no, there actually was an unusual charge on my card. So we are getting new cards and I changed my username/password at walmart.com. I also contacted Walmart to cancel the order, which had not yet been shopped (I told them it was fraud).
Some online sleuthing leads me to believe that there was a breach at Walmart's end. There are accusations that customer data was stolen and is for sale on the dark web. Plenty of user comments about recent experiences like mine. If you have a walmart.com account, you might want to change the password before you are victimized.
By cancelling the order, I may have thwarted someone's plans for a fun NYE party. The total order was $470: pizza, gummy bears, flan, dish detergent, laundry detergent, five cases of beer, two bottles of tequila, and three bottles of Scotch.
For some reason I checked the messages on our landline when we got home (I rarely do that). There was a robocall about possible fraud on my Discover credit card, and I "must call immediately!". I ignored the phone number given and called the number on the back of my credit card, fully expecting the representative to tell me there were no alerts on my account. But no, there actually was an unusual charge on my card. So we are getting new cards and I changed my username/password at walmart.com. I also contacted Walmart to cancel the order, which had not yet been shopped (I told them it was fraud).
Some online sleuthing leads me to believe that there was a breach at Walmart's end. There are accusations that customer data was stolen and is for sale on the dark web. Plenty of user comments about recent experiences like mine. If you have a walmart.com account, you might want to change the password before you are victimized.
By cancelling the order, I may have thwarted someone's plans for a fun NYE party. The total order was $470: pizza, gummy bears, flan, dish detergent, laundry detergent, five cases of beer, two bottles of tequila, and three bottles of Scotch.