Doctor Olds
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4 edits |  [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Int
»www2.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14565471
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A triple header. 
September 11th, 2005
First a test charge authorization of $1.00 dollar from:
Telecommunications Equipment
Coastal Wave Internet
Port Clinton, OH
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September 23rd, 2005
Then a $9.95 charge from:
KCSOFTLLC.com
Rochester, NY
Listed on BBB Warning page since March 24th, 2005
»www.spokane.bbb.org/alerts/alert···wstype=1
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September 24rd, 2005
Then a $24.99 charge from:
Digital Age
Cypress
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It looks like someone is testing the card and if the Auth goes through, then the other companies hit the card for their charges. Or is it just unrelated? One company is apparently legit.
Anyone else with these 3?
Regards,
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Doctor Olds
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| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Yes, I did search the Forum as well as Google and elsewhere, but there were no posts with two (2) name matches together much less all three (3). I did post in the »$9.95 scam, now from kcsoftllc.com thread to keep it updated.
The strangest thing is the Ohio Wireless ISP that charged an Auth on my card and yet I've never been to Ohio and I am not a Yacht owner (their primary target customer base) so who is using their CC processor to test cards for being valid? That sounds very suspicious.
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| | MGD
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-31
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave said by Doctor Olds  :...........The strangest thing is the Ohio Wireless ISP that charged an Auth on my card and yet I've never been to Ohio and I am not a Yacht owner (their primary target customer base) so who is using their CC processor to test cards for being valid? That sounds very suspicious. Regards, Doctor Olds That is a typical MO of how some of these frauds operate. IMO you are on the right track and your card was tested thru Coastalwave with the $1 charge.
My guess is that Coastalwave's merchant account was hacked or compromised. The scammers will usually hack them on weekends, and run hundreds of tests to validate cards. Since you are an interested party you may want to call them
»www.coastalwave.net/contact.php and enquire about the test on your card. I would not be surprised if that was the case.
Did your bank give you any contact info for the Digital Age charge ?? a phone number maybe or address?. Cyprus seems to be a favorite scam location.
As already posted, both KCSOFTLLC and Trouble Bubble are under the umbrella of the Devbill.com Credit Card scam operations.
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| | Kip patterson
Premium
join:2000-10-23
Columbus, OH
| Some merchant accounts operate with essentially no security, allowing anyone that reads the code on a site to place charges as though they were the merchant, and look at the merchant's account to see if they went through. The merchant then finds his account has been closed by his merchant bank, and his 800 number overwhelmed by phone calls. Sounds like the case here. | |
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angelfire79
join:2005-09-29
Orlando, FL
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Internet Looks like the previous posts are old but I just got hit with $24.99 from Cyprus Digital Age on 9/19/05 and there is only part of an 888 number. I am disputing this with the bank but they say this transaction is something I signed for! I knew it had to be bogus transaction. Anyone else had this recently?? | |
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Doctor Olds
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| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Internet said by angelfire79 :Looks like the previous posts are old but I just got hit with $24.99 from Cyprus Digital Age on 9/19/05 and there is only part of an 888 number. I am disputing this with the bank but they say this transaction is something I signed for! I knew it had to be bogus transaction. Anyone else had this recently?? Does 09-24-2005 count as recent as my post above shows?
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September 24rd, 2005
Then a $24.99 charge from:
Digital Age
Cypress
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join:2005-09-29
Orlando, FL | Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Internet Yes it does. After I posted my message I saw the more recent posts. My CU just credited my account after saying I would not get the money back! | |
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lucyred
@4.21.x.x
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too-odd
@comcast.net
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Yep, just got hit with a $24.99 charge from Digital Age, Cypruss as of yesterday 10/6/05. My bank is happily taking care of this for me, but moving to a new card etc... is the real pain.
Also filed report at www.ifccfbi.gov (sometime you just gotta involve the feds...) ;-(
And on we go... | |
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bboop123
@aol.com | Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave I do not have these charges. I have a Wells Fargo Visa Debit Card. I shop online at 3 million different stores and very frequently, this is not a certain store internet hack. | |
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RMurphy2
@cavtel.net | I just got one too on 9/27/05
DIGITAL AGE 888-529-98 CYPRUS SWE for $24.99 | |
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cyto777
@comcast.net
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Internet I also was hit with this charge
CHECKCARD 0918 DIGITAL AGE 888-529-98 CYPRUS
for $24.99 on 9/19/2005. My card was blocked by my Bank and they sent me a new card. Thanks for these posts. It was great having this evidence when I spoke to the fraud specialists. | |
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join:2005-10-10
San Bernardino, CA | Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Internet also was hit with this charge
CHECKCARD 0918 DIGITAL AGE 888-529-98 CYPRUS
for $24.99 on 9/19/2005. | |
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| mbd73
join:2005-10-01
Hempstead, NY | I also had this same charge of $24.99 on September 22 from Digital Age Cypress 888 Cypress. | |
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Zakka
@verizon.ne | I received the same info charged against my credit card. The partial 888 number: 888-529-98. Billing date was also 9/19/2005. | |
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Debsvette74
@aol.com
| I was hit with a charge from Digital Age yesterday 10/7/2005 for the amount of $24.99. I spoke with my bank and as soon as it posts I have to dispute it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm new to all this computer stuff and have no idea what is going on. | |
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allbetternow
@comcast.net
| I just got my mastercard with a 24.99 charge from digital Age in cypress sweden and another partial phone number and I have no receipt for this. My mastercard phone person was NO help at all but having read your posts I think I'll just cancel the card for safety | |
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muypicante
@cablespeed.com | I have the exact same thing on 9/28/05
-24.99
DIGITAL AGE 888-529-98
CYPRUS SW
What did you do about this?
email me if you find anything out.
Kea
muypicante@yahoo.com | |
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Vicki Z
@socket.net
| We recently had a charge on our credit card account from Digital Age, in Cyprus, Sweden, with the partial phone # of 888-529-98. Our credit card company notified us of this transaction before we had received our statement.
Wouldn't this be easy to trace? Where is the electronic funds transfer being deposited? In the United States?
Sweden? | |
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| | Kip patterson
Premium
join:2000-10-23
Columbus, OH
1 edit | Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Internet The merchant account is in Sweden. The perpetrators are apparently in Cyprus, but maybe not. After the money was received into the crook's account at the merchant bank he took it out as a check or another transfer.
Stopped (by mastercard) on October 12. Don't know is they were caught or not. They were only around for about a month. | |
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beautifulmama
@bellsouth.net
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave I got 10/10 DIGITAL AGE 888-529-98 CYPRUS SWE 24.99
on my Chase Mastercard, which I use for everything online, so I couldn't even begin to tell you where to look. I remember Newegg.com, amazon, probably ebay, PayPal, who knows what else?
The first Chase representative emphasized again and again that I should ask my husband if he knew anything about the charge, and even said it's probably not a fraud because it's so small! I said I've been fraudulently charged before by someone who just did a little on everyone's card. When I called back after finding that hundreds of others have had the same fraudulent charge, the next representative happily cancelled the #, but pretended to know nothing about Digital Age, and said she'd be mailing an affidavit for me to fill out and have notorized. Now that I know the extent of this scam, it's *outrageous* that I should have to do ANYthing, when they know that it's a documented fraud. | |
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beautifulmama
@bellsouth.net | Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave I just realized that I said it was a Chase card; it was actually a Shell Citi card. Sorry, Chase! | |
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| | | | Kip patterson
Premium
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Columbus, OH
| Ah, communications.
I don't know how credit card companies work, other than not very well. But I can tell you that Mastercard shut these folks down on the 12th of October. It seems reasonable that not every rep is told about every fraud, but you would think that there would be a handy database that they could key the name in and find out.
I would tell them that this is a known fraud, that mastercard security is aware of it, and that they need to deal with this, not you. You and I pay a hell of a lot for credit card services and we ought to be getting them. | |
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kikiv
join:2005-08-10
Newark, DE
| I've seen it too. It bills out of Sweden, but most credit card companies are aware and catching them before they get thru. Fraud rings set up ficticious businesses and name them after real reputable companies so if you see the charge on your statement you will think that it is legit. | |
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mbd73
join:2005-10-01
Hempstead, NY
| On September 22, 2005 I also got a $9.95 charge from a Global Net Software, I called a telephone number in Illinois and they refunded me the $9.95 yesterday. On the 22nd I also had a $24.99 charge to my debit card from a Digital Age Cypress 888 Cypress. | |
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| tiongkiat
join:2005-10-07
Berkeley, CA
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Internet said by mbd73 :On September 22, 2005 I also got a $9.95 charge from a Global Net Software, I called a telephone number in Illinois and they refunded me the $9.95 yesterday. On the 22nd I also had a $24.99 charge to my debit card from a Digital Age Cypress 888 Cypress. I also had a $9.95 charge from "GLOBALNET SOFTWARE 201-636-4208 IL" on October 1, 2005. I called the number today only to find it disconnected. A call to my credit card company resulted in a reversal of the charge. | |
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sjh
@comcast.net | Add me to the list - all the info reported by others - date 9/28 | |
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Gisele C
| My Amazon.com card (Chase Bank) was charged by this "Digital Age 888-529-98 Cyprus" for $24.99 as well on 9/15. I am going to report this as a fraud to the bank and cancel the card. [Sigh!]
Also everyone should take time to file a report with »https://www.ifccfbi.gov | |
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AnonF
@rr.com | Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Same charge for me from Digital Age in Sept for $24.99. I also had one shortly before it from Hautmond Web Madrid for $29.95 that I don't recognize. | |
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| via19seg
join:2005-10-08
La Jolla, CA | A good suggestion! I'll join the long list as I was hit 9-20 for the $24.99. | |
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veda
@tx.charter | Had the $24.99 charge from Digital Age on 10/01/05 with phone number 888 529-98. Putting a block on the charge and trying to change my card number with the bank. Will notify the fraud folks. | |
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fabiola
@covad.net
| I have 3 charges on my card that are not mine:
9/19/05 keystone4wealth, Ohio- they have a web page 614-283...
***********************************************************9/20/05 DIGITAL AGE 888-529-98CYPRUS
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and a $99.95 charge pending.
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All on my capital one. I am cancelling the card. | |
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onandonanon
| Digital Age Scam - Cyprus SE This SCAM is also hitting Government
Agencies, at least at the State level. Since
we are guardians of the peoples money, we
are mandated to use State designated websites
or websites that must meet some darn stringent
parameters...with the only deviation I have
seen in my 22 years as a public servant being
an emergency purchase. Purchasing from Ebay
is prohibited, as well as using Pay Pal or
other escrow companies. So I'm inclined to
support the Database Has Been Hacked
theory. By whom, remains to be seen, with
some odds on favorites being: (1) The inside
man (2) A disgruntled employee (3) A government
monitoring agency (4) A terrorist cell (5) A
diversion for some other heinous crime (6) Maybe
even a genetically abhorrent person who lacks the
gene combination for sensing right from wrong or
for feeling remorse for transgressions & violations
against those of us who have been sullied by this
most foul perpetrator(s)... | |
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alkmst01
@Dial1.Pho
| I just found a "DIGITAL AGE, 888-529-98, CYPRUS, 2" charge for $24.99 on my capital one credit card. I don't use paypal, but I do use amazon and the info was on file there.
I notified them, capital one and filed a complaint with »ifccfbi.gov as someone suggested. Thanks for all the info! | |
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1 edit | It isn't amazon, or any other e-commerce company, that is being used as a source for these scams.
There is a leak inside the credit card system somewhere, something that allows card numbers to be tested fast enough and without detection. Credit card numbers are simply not long enough and as you know, the "security" code on the back, and the persons full billing address, is not always required by every vendor putting through a charge, thus, these details are not required. Full Stop. I'm not even sure the name is required.
So all you need (as a bad-guy vendor with e-access to bank billing) is valid numbers and expiry dates. If you really need something else like a zip code, perhaps the DECLINED transaction returns "DECLINED - ZIP INVALID" so then you have a good number, and the problem is reduced to just having to guess the ZIP.
I'd bet there are weaknesses within the huge card processing industry that allow a bank of valid numbers and expiry dates to be built up, without detection, and then the fraudsters electronically charge 1000s of people at once, transfer the money away, and leave their fake-vendor vehicle empty for the slow bank fraud departments to find and close. Then they move on and do it all again.
So there is no point comparing where you used the card. It isn't the problem. | |
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| Kip patterson
Premium
join:2000-10-23
Columbus, OH
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave The "leak" is well-known. (Not so much so that I will post all the details here!) Basically, you need access to a merchant account, then you run a small charge, say $1.00, on all the cards. When the merchant finds his account shut the next day, who cares? | |
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izy
Premium,MVM
join:2000-09-21
Naples, FL
| said by justin :I'd bet there are weaknesses within the huge card processing industry that allow a bank of valid numbers and expiry dates to be built up, without detection, and then the fraudsters electronically charge 1000s of people at once, transfer the money away, and leave their fake-vendor vehicle empty for the slow bank fraud departments to find and close. Then they move on and do it all again. This is exactly the problem. What gets me is the non-chalant attitude some of the banks have about the whole situation. Meanwhile while we're here trying to get to the bottom of the scam the banks don't have any problems with charging interest on these bogus charges while the charge is investigated.
When are they going to get off their lazy arses and either catch the criminals and/or fix the system???
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shambugrger
@66.11.x.x | Have had the same problem:
Don't see a $1 charge but do see
9/23 kc softwarecom llc - NY $9.95
9/26 digital age cyprus sweden $24.99 | |
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proverbs_327
join:2005-10-06
Norfolk, VA | I got hit for 24.99 from "digital age 888-52." It was my wife's card and she rarely shops online with it. She shopped on vitacoast, cbd, and flax. Unfourtanately Wachovia is dragging its feet for us. The charge was on 9/30. | |
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victim
@adelphia.net | I got the 24.99 charge from digital age on 10/5 as well, I filed a dispute with my bank (as the card was a check card)...we'll see what happens. | |
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SLXstl
@wnvl.century
| Thanks for the information in Digital Age Cypress SE. I called my bank and they said I could only dispute after it had posted. I googled the name and found this site. I have since called back and reported it as fraud and closed the account. Thanks! | |
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Donna t
@swbell.ne
| I had an attempted debit on my pay pal acct yesterday. fortunately it was denied but I have money today and this scares me. where are they getting these card numbers. U use mine mostly at grocery stores and only on christian web sites. I have used ebay and half.com...and wonder it this could be the culprit?
I usually do those with pay pal directly, not giving the card number.
Im on hold waiting for the pay pal people to pick up the phone...so I can report this and cancel the card.
what else should I do. Im glad to find this site on google...I didn't have a clue what was going on.
Donna | |
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chiphering
join:2005-10-07
Plymouth, MI | Just got the same bogus Digital Age Cypress charge for $24.95 on my Capital One. Maybe Capital One has a leak. | |
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lightfusegetaway
@us.d
| Those scum bags at "Digital Age" got me too for 24.99 on 10/7/05. Calling my bank on Monday. Does anyone have any information on the company Digital Age or any identifying information that could be reported to the FBI? This sounds like an offshore operation... correct? | |
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JenL
@Dial1.Chi | I also got hit for $24.99 from "Digital Age 888-529-98 CYPRUS" on 9/24 on my capital one card. Will be calling to cancel my card. | |
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Deeply Shrouded
@comcast.net
1 edit | Well, it looks like the scammers are as busy as ever.
My wife bought some software on 10-03-05, from a company
called removed by moderator out of Texas.
On 10-06-05, her debit card was charged $24.99
by Digital Age 888-529-98 Cyprus.
She has been shopping online for 7 years and has never had
a problem. My question is this, it is only debit cards that
are being affected or are credit cards being hit as well?
Her debit card was through Bank of America.
A quick phone call to their fraud department, and a handy
pair of scissors, now make the account inaccessable.
It pisses me off I tell ya...the site said it was secure.
I have 1/2 a mind to dial everything from 9801-9899 from a
payphone just to see who answers with cyprus.....
--Deeply Shrouded & Quiet
--Central Control! D-Dial #49 | |
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Deeply Shrouded
@comcast.net
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave Oops! Thanks Mr. Moderator for catching my faux pas. 
You know, if they hit 100,000 accounts, that's $2,499,000.
Now consider that some people don't bother to check their
bill and just pay it. That's still quite a haul.
Is there a map or list of cards that have been hit?
--Deeply Shrouded & Quiet
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Kikinaak
@adelphia.net
| Digital Age 888-529-98 Cyprus
Ironic, but if the missing 2 digits of this number were 37 it would spell out 888-lawyer. Trouble is if this company is a front, flybynight, whatever (and with the number of people getting hit it is obviously a scam of some sort), then the 8 digits in that phone# cannot be assumed to be valid. I doubt wardialing the last 2 digits would turn up any useful results. Still, it would be entertaining to try... | |
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ConcernedPayPal
@rr.com
| Re: [scam] Digital Age, KCSOFTLLC and Coastal Wave I was also hit with the digiatl Age 24.99 charge . I called PayPal and they said it was first they have heard of it. I fille dout all the necessary forms but was very concerned so I did a search for this charge and found this board. WOW! this really sucks! I hope we can find out who did this so we can get to the bottom of this huge leak!!!!! | |
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rackman
join:2000-12-10
Houston, TX
| Yup..they hit me too. Visa debit card (2nd one this year cancelled due to scammers). I would really be curious who the software company was in TX as I just bought some too and now this. It was removed by a mod but if you could PM me that would be great. | |
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