Has anyone heard of ezeringame.com?

January 17, 2012 10:15 AM

My girlfriend recently got a charge from ezeringame.com. She has no memory of the charge, but it was only for $6 dollars, so its definitely in range of a quick purchase that she might not recall.

Has anyone heard about the website or billing company? Obviously she'll cancel her account if it is compromised, but she'd prefer not to. I've googled the name and company and all I get are Turkish links. Anyone heard of ezeringame.com? How worried should we be about identity theft?

posted by Carillon to Work & Money (8 answers total)

Best answer: Call the credit card company and report this immediately. I'm nearly certain they will cancel the charge, cancel that card and issue a new one.
posted by jeff-o-matic at 10:22 AM on January 17, 2012

Best answer: I haven't heard of them, so I can't help you on that front, but I do know that sometimes identity thieves will try out a smaller purchase or two to start, to see if the card works and that the details are correct, and then go on the big spending spree sometime afterwards. Which is odd, considering how dumb they usually are (like the guy who had an Onkyo receiver he ordered shipped to his address in the Bronx, but let them mail the billing receipt to me).

Oh, and this is a credit card, I hope? They're usually pretty good with removing fraudulent charges, but if it's a debit card, I wouldn't take a chance and I would cancel/order a new one right away.
posted by Grither at 10:24 AM on January 17, 2012

Best answer: Credit card thieves often make a small charge on a stolen card just to see if it works. This could be the prelude to much bigger fraud. Report it to the credit card company.
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 10:24 AM on January 17, 2012

Best answer: There is no such website, the URL is not even registered. You can buy it if you want. Those search results are Lithuanian, not Turkish.
posted by beagle at 10:25 AM on January 17, 2012

Best answer: "Ežeringame" appears to be a Lithuanian word that Google translates as "Laky". Apparently translation software has a ways to go, but if I catch even a whiff of Eastern Europe or Asia on an unknown credit card charge I rush to report it and request a new card immediately.
posted by rocketpup at 10:37 AM on January 17, 2012

Best answer: Yup, report this immediately. When they got my ex's info, they tested it with a few 99¢ app store purchases that would have easily gone overlooked by anyone in the habit of buying apps.
posted by phunniemee at 10:46 AM on January 17, 2012

Response by poster: Thanks all. She's cancelling the card and denying the charge. Appreciate all the advice.
posted by Carillon at 1:48 PM on January 17, 2012

Since it's free to do so, she should also pull her credit reports for the year (www.annualcreditreport.com) and place a flag on them so that any credit application in her name will result in a phone call to her to confirm her identity.

Most likely they just lifted a credit card number and nothing further will happen after the card is canceled, but the fraud flag is free and simple to do. Every time this has happened to me, I've done this.
posted by peanut_mcgillicuty at 8:04 PM on January 17, 2012