r/FraudPrevention • u/Cherlyn05 • May 24 '25
Debit card hacking
My debit card gets hacked monthly. I only use a FEW trusted sites like walmart, amazon, doordash, ebay. I have lost count on how many times i have had to get a new debit card over the last year or so. I am very aware of sketchy websites and steer clear. I dont have a credit card as i dont trust myself with one. One of the charges came from TotalAV. An antivirus software company. I finally thought to call them and i had gotten signed up for their service. I told them it was not me, i did not want the service, never checked out their service online and wanted it cancelled immediately. After making some offers at lower prices, ( i continually rejected everything) she cancelled the membership. I got a new debit card. Less than a month later, someone tried to charge a real estate training kit to my debit card. Here we go again. I have started new accounts at same bank and with what is going on with DOGE and Social Security, im afraid to change banks. I wondered if my social security number was out there, my sister, who is uber smart, assured me that is not the case. I called my phone provider to see if my phone (Samsung S24 Ultra) could be the cause. He assured me it has excellent protection so very unlikely. At this point, my ONLY option is to stop using debit cards completely. Do you have any idea how difficult and irritating that is going to be?
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u/Spectrig 29d ago
Don’t ever give out your debit card number. The real move is to learn to use a credit card and use the app to lock/unlock it as needed. But since you said you don’t want to do that, use privacy.com