Consumerist is warning everyone should check their credit card statements for a charge from, “STC SAWA RECHARGE RIYADH SA”.

The Saudi Arabian phone card company is fraudulently passing charges to consumer’s cards, usually for sums of $80. If you find one of these unwanted charges, contact your card company to dispute the charges. This may not be enough, as consumers report being the charges hitting their cards multiple times, even after reporting them. In these cases, it may be better to cancel the account.

There’s seems to be no correlation between vendors victims used their cards with, perhaps pointing to a breach at the credit card company level.

[Consumerist]

[tags]cybercrime, identity theft, credit card fraud, fraud[/tags]