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[Stormrider]

Fraudulent charges and identity theft are becoming a huge pain. Part of the problem is that it's near impossible to catch the thieves and the penalties are not harsh enough when they do.

I got my identity stolen two years ago, which is much worse than fraudulent charges. The thief had opened over $60,000 in credit cards and loans and destroyed my credit history. He had applied to over 70 store credit and loans. And I only found out the fraudulent accounts when collection agencies began contacting me a year later. Anyway, the point is that the thief was caught (a very rare thing). And even though he is a repeat offender and a convicted felon, he most likely will only receive a slap on the wrist from the courts.

[bvzxa]

Fraudulent charges and identity theft are becoming a huge pain. Part of the problem is that it's near impossible to catch the thieves and the penalties are not harsh enough when they do.

I got my identity stolen two years ago, which is much worse than fraudulent charges. The thief had opened over $60,000 in credit cards and loans and destroyed my credit history. He had applied to over 70 store credit and loans. And I only found out the fraudulent accounts when collection agencies began contacting me a year later. Anyway, the point is that the thief was caught (a very rare thing). And even though he is a repeat offender and a convicted felon, he most likely will only receive a slap on the wrist from the courts.

My heart goes out to you. I got hit last year. And what sucks is I ordered on the supposed upgrade to the TFCC credit card system.

I'm sorry but apologizing just doesn't cut it. Why??

Yeah it's nice to hear we admit we had a problem, but either way you got your $100+ regardless of whether your company got hit. Who is the real loser, us. I stayed away for a year and really didn't miss anything, decide to comeback and may get screwed by the pooch. That's why I am leaving the TF community because it's getting bad. First we can't sleep at night wondering if we're gonna lose any money, then we get FE figures in a sh*tty release and now we get inferior molds because Hasbro is a bloodsucker.

I get any fraudulent charges I am gonna exercise my American right to sue.

[Simes]

To allay any possible concerns people may have, bookings for Auto Assembly 2012 are still open and have been unaffected by any credit / debit card fraud since the convention started in 2000.

We have been using PayPal to handle all our transactions safely since 2004 and are happy to offer alternative methods of payment for anyone wishing to attend the convention if you are concerned about paying using any electronic method but we can assure you that none of our team have access to any of your credit card details or any of your personal details other than your name, address and email address which we need for the purpose of the convention itself.

Simon Plumbe
Auto Assembly Committee Head

[Banjo-Tron]

Thought I got through this unscathed, but resolved to cancel my card anyway in case. I rang my bank today. Aparently they were trying to get through to me, because in the last week they had blocked hundreds of attempts to use my card. Loads of transactions traced back to Ohio, plus some from all over Europe. If my bank hadn't been proactive, I would now have about £1500 of fraudulent charges on my card. One errant charge for around £10 got through.

To say I'm cross is somewhat of an understatement. Would love to be at Botcon to give FunPub what for. I think It's high time that Hasbro made a statement like this, as their brand is being damaged indirectly, as well. Should Hasbro allow FunPub to keep their license in the light of this? The way I see it, FunPub owes us all a lot more than a pithy apology. On a positive note, I did get my Runamuck today, and he is nice indeed. It's just a shame that what is an awesome exclusive has been marred by a laundry list of amateur mistakes.

[Delicon]

Thought I got through this unscathed, but resolved to cancel my card anyway in case. I rang my bank today. Aparently they were trying to get through to me, because in the last week they had blocked hundreds of attempts to use my card. Loads of transactions traced back to Ohio, plus some from all over Europe. If my bank hadn't been proactive, I would now have about £1500 of fraudulent charges on my card. One errant charge for around £10 got through.

To say I'm cross is somewhat of an understatement. Would love to be at Botcon to give FunPub what for. I think It's high time that Hasbro made a statement like this, as their brand is being damaged indirectly, as well. Should Hasbro allow FunPub to keep their license in the light of this? The way I see it, FunPub owes us all a lot more than a pithy apology. On a positive note, I did get my Runamuck today, and he is nice indeed. It's just a shame that what is an awesome exclusive has been marred by a laundry list of amateur mistakes.

My biggest fear is the same as Seibertron's, that Hasbro will pull the license and start doing their own HasbroCon...

[Banjo-Tron]

My biggest fear is the same as Seibertron's, that Hasbro will pull the license and start doing their own HasbroCon...

Well if they ever wanted a compelling reason to do so, they have been handed one. It would be a sad day indeed if that happened, though.

[Stormrider]

Well, my credit card just got hit with $250 fraudulent charge. Annoying.

[Seibertron]

Here is another update from the Transformers Collectors' Club run by Fun Publications. Please read this information if you have been a member of the Club in the past few years or if you have ever used a credit card with their organization.

As we continue to work on our systems, you will see some of our services go offline and then come back, so please be patient as we preserve data and clone servers and websites.

We are also taking this opportunity to remove all non-essential services from our ecomerce server. So in the short term in the next day or so, the club forums will be discontinued. It will be several days until we are ready to bring them back under an entierly new piece of software. I know alot of you have been asking for this so, we have decided to replace several of our systems with new packages. This means that you will not have access to the forum for a while at all. We do plan to make the old forum viewable (no posts) in the future.

Since we do not know exactly what data was taken, we are recommending that if your have used common logins or passwords with our system and any other system that your change your passwords in those systems immidiately (especially any financial sysstems)! We will be resetting all of the passwords in our system very soon. Please don't delay in changing your passwords in other locations.

In addition, we have found a few recent aticles concerning security issues with other vendors. If you use these services, these issues could possibly impact you. Please read the attached links:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/1 ... 68593.html?

http://www.greenpois0n.co/itunes-accoun ... redit.html

Thanks for your support in this difficult time. We will continue to work with our vendors to correct the issues and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused any of our members.

Brian Savage

If you have not cancelled your credit or debit cards that you have used in the past, you MUST cancel those numbers. It's a very simple process. You just need to call the phone number on the back of your card, explain what happened, and your bank or credit card company will send you a new card which you should received in 7 to 10 business days or sooner (I received one of mine in 4 business days). You MUST do this. It is inevitable that failure to do this will only result in your card being used for fraudulent purposes. Do NOT wait for you to get hit. The only way you can protect yourself is by cancelling your current card numbers and having new cards sent to you.

It is also strongly recommended that you immediately change your passwords if you use your password on TransformersClub.com on any other website or banking website. The passwords in their database are not encrypted and it should be assumed at this point that all of our account information was taken along with our payment information.

[Mighty_Galvatron]

What?!

What kind of incompetents are running that place?! This is pure stupidity - unacceptable.

[DISCHARGE]

That's a pleasant surprise for everyone. HUZZAH!!