MAXIWEBINTRO Fraud…
Yet another fraud warning:
A charge appeared on my Citibank card on April 8 for $9.95 from MAXIWEBINTRO with a listed phone number of 253-660-0328. A quick web search revealed that the charge is a scam, a result of charges of randomly selected credit card numbers. Fortunately, after a few minutes of questioning, Citibank automatically found in my favor and permanently reversed the charge.
The $9.95 charge is a bit scary. Most people don’t go through their credit card statements carefully and probably wouldn’t notice the under-ten-dollar charge. That, and many credit card companies require a notarized statement of fraud which often costs a minimum of $10. Many might just ignore the smaller charge in favor of saving a nickel. Me, I’d spend the higher amount on principle.
I find it strange that the charge appeared on the same day that I purchased my vacation tickets from the Walt Disney Travel Company. Perhaps a wayward employee of a subcontracted company is responsible. I don’t like coincidences.
Today 6-20-05 i discovered that the 9.95 charge my husband was accusing me of making was maxiwebintro as well. however the number i have (from my bank) is 270-778-3268 and the bank says its in NJ. I have filed all the paperwork I have to do to get my 9.95 back.. its so stupid how much easier it is for them to steal my money than it is for me to get it back. its going to be weeks and yet they probably had it in seconds and can do it again if they get ahold of the new numbers i’m being issued. Yes you guessed it, cards we have had for years had to be closed so we could be issued new numbers. Its so much easier to steal than to live an honest life, welcome to the United States! Jennifer ~ a little frustrated and a lot aggitated Is it really random? maybe we sould meet on a forum somewhere and see if there is any connection between all of us getting scammed
Yeah, they got me too. billed on 17 Jun 2005 for $9.95. Company is MAXIWEBINTRO and thier phone number is (270)778-3268. They show a location of NJ. I now have to call my crdit card company. I will let you know how it works out.
I too was hit by maxiwebintro with a charge posted on 6-20-05 for 9.95. It was charged to my ATM card. I recently made a purchase on Amazon on the 18th of this month and a paypal transaction on the 11th of this month.
Opened my Statement today and I too found a charge from Maxiwebintro. I immediately called Citibank and was told it would be removed immediately once I provided them with the proper information. The customer service rep also informed me that Citibank will not pursue anything under $10.00. Quite a scam these people have going and I hope they get caught soon!
I too received this charge, Wells Fargo said it would take up to 2 weeks as well for my check card. My last puchase prior was also Amazon.com.
I too, have been caught up in this one. 9.95 posted to by Chase Circuit City Visa. I have never used this card on line, so they must have randomly generated the card number. Chase have placed item in dispute and will sent me a form to complete. Stated it must be completed in 30days or you lose the right to dispute the charge.
I can’t believe that this has happened. I am usually the most careful person when it comes to $$. This $9.95 charge came after I used an ATM out of my Bank. MAXIWEBINTRO SUCKS! My card got cancelled, i have to wait 2-3 weeks for a new card,am getting charged to get a new card, and have to do a whole butt load of paperwork just to get 9.95 back into my account. These people are jerks. I would love to leave a message on the number behind this MAXIWeBINTRO and give them a piece of my mind! if you would like to also herez the number: 207-778-3268. THEY SHOULD BURN!!!
me too. I just got it removed. Thanks
I just noticed a $9.95 charge from this Maxiwebintro - it was charged to my debit card back in April. I too hadn’t been concerned because of the amount. I just pulled my April statement out to look for something else & saw this. Reason I was just now suspicious, someone charged to my husband’s debit card 3 charges of $92.99 - was from an online gaming site. Had to cancel his card & get a new one! UGH!
Hey Gang, I too got hit by MACROCYBERLINC 270-778-3268 DE. Had to have the bank cancel my card and I will have to file a dispute report to get my money back but at least this site and others had valuable information to share letting me know I was being had. Thanks for the heads up.
Hey all, Just got dinged by MAXIWEBINTRO (phone 270-778-3268) myself for $9.95 also got hit same day on another card by Innovative Software Tech (610-579-9414) Both charges were reversed but also had to change acct numbers to prevent rebill.
Hi, I just got hit by MAXIWEBINTRO (phone 270-778-3268 in NJ) for $9.95. I called the CC company and the rep ask me to first contact the MAXIWEBINTRO to have the charge reverse. If they refuse then I’ll have to call the CC Co. back and sign some forms before the charged can be reversed. This will also mean that my current CC will be cancelled and a new one reissued. Before this happened, I have made purchase from ZipZoomFly.com and Buy.com.
Got nailed by maxiwebintro on 8/8/2005 for $9.95 on my Chase/Bankone Visa business debit card. Had to close the card.
Also got hit today by macrocyberlinc for 9.95.. what a joke.. Don’t plan on anything happening to these people they wont ever get caught.. tried to call the 207-778-3268, get msg that says press 3 for fax, or 1 for msg… spent 2 1/2 hours dealing with credit union, then they send me to the police station to file fraud charges, waited there for 45 min just to talk to an office. Yea right like the police even care about a 9.95 charge.. But hey steal a candy bar and your going to jail…. Scams like this aren’t going away, they will only get worse… Prepare by watching your accounts daily, and only having one credit card.. I suggest canceling all but one.
I got nailed on 8/15. I check my Citi card account every day. Made a phone call and they put that $9.95 in dispute. I hope they get these people and put them in jail where they belong.
got hit will the 9.95 charge today for innovative software technologies. the phone # is 610-5799414. at the prompt to leave a message press the star key a few times and it will ask you for your password. it is 1234. you can listen to all the people who also have complained about the charge
I got hit 8/20 for the 9.95 and after 4 phone calls to Wachovia, they insisted that I call the 610-579-9414 shown on the charge. Wachovia wouldn’t even start the paperwork to dispute the charge ntil I called that number to “try and resolve the dispute”. It took Google less than 15 seconds to pull up this blog with all these complaints-I’m gonna have to change banks, they are stuck in the 19th century. Then they acted surprised when I told them about the blog and how many complaints for the same thing were posted. Said they’d have a supervisor call me back-if they don’t, I’ll definitely be changing banks!
yeah, i just got hit by this çráp today, my bank froze my debit card and now i have to fill out a lot of paperwork and pay to get a new debit card when its fraud, bullcrap. No one ever picks up the phone at any of the numbers, I swear sometimes you need to castrate people to prove a point. I hope whoever is running this ring gets a horrible disease and burns in hëll!!!!
I just got a charge from MaxiWebIntro on 8-19 also with a NJ address. Luckly my bank is going to investigate this and credited me my money back. This site was the first google hit in about 5 seconds. The people doing this need a place right next to Jimmy Hoffa.
Aug 14, i too just got a hit on the ‘MACROCYBERLINK’ $9.95 charge. the bank was informed and the card canceled and the charge removed. my bank is going to investigate also.
I had a hit today, just after I paid my balance with my bank routing number to my citibank and chace card. I think there is a trend here on citi cards and chace… I got hit with a recharge payment for a cell phone the same day.
I was hit with the same $9.95 charge by http://www.infottech.com 610-579-9414 in PA on 8/4/05. Called Bank of America and they credited the charge immediatly.
My $9.95 was from ‘Art Magic Inc’ which was charged on 8/21. Unlike a previous poster’s experience, Wachovia was extremely responsive and helpful and did not require me to jump through any hoops. Although, I identified my complaint as fraud initially. From other blogs, it looks like this is fallout from Card Services Inc., that was compromised back in June. However, I am running on a hypothesis that the billing system(s) of one of two major American online game publishers was compromised. So far all my buddies that have played them, like me, have had this or similar charges show up recently.
I found this site via google after noticing a $9.95 charge on my account from “Innovative software tec.” Glad I’m not alone.
I just found one from http://www.insofttech.com for that $9.95. I get a mesage all operators are busy at the number listed, 610-579-9414. where are they getting the numbers?
They got me too! August 29th, I had a posting form this MAXIWEBINFO for 9.95. When I didn’t recognize the name, I did a google search, and when I saw this site, I was floored. I have immediately reported it to my bank Fifth Third, and they weren’t as helpful as citibank. Anyway, thanks for alerting me to this fraud.
I got hit too. Transaction dated 8/7, amount of $9.95, from MAXIWEBINTRO 270-7783268 NJ, on my VISA card. One call to Chase bank resulted in quick resolution.
Thank you all for posting this information, as this helped me with my dispute against Innovative Software 610-5799414. Quite annoying that they can make charges so easily just with the debit card number. Canceling the debit card number is anooying as well. Has anyone tried to bring any law enforcement agencies into this situation?
Hmmm…the Innovative Software company’s web site looks legit. Perhaps someone has been purchasing their product with our debit card numbers? Still quite suspicious for Innovative software not to police their sales better.
I was also falsely charged $9.95 on 8/17/05 by “Innovative Software Te 610-579-9414″. I called my credit card company and the charge was removed. Thanks for the info.
I see I am not alone on this I got hit 8/18/05 for the 9.95 and have not been able to call my Credut Union that the card is under because it is not open on week ends, the phone no is the same as a bunch of others that I see on this page, this goes back into last year and they are still getting away with it.
I had charges of $9.95 appear on THREE separate charge accounts of mine, all with a transaction date of 8/14/05. Company names are INSOFTTECH, EVERGREEN ALLIANCE, and Absolute (haven’t received statement yet). It *appears* that two of my other credit cards have not been affected. The difference appears to be bogus charges on all cards that I have ever used for electronic transactions
Its hard to explain how they got these credit card numbers - either some major clear house got hacked, just for those used electronically; OR my Linux System (behind a firewall) got compromised and they are harvesting that way …
I just had the charge appear on my Bank of America online statement. Charge made today. Company name: “Art Magic Inc.com”. Stupid BOA is closed so I will be calling them first thing in the morning. Thanks to the other commenters for posting their information - I’m starting to relax a little since it seems to be randomly generated card numbers but it still pìššëš me off! Ðámn thieves.
I recieved the charge from MACROCYBERLINC on 8/29 through my Citizens Bank account, did some searching on google and found this site read through all of your posts and you all have some good information the 270-778-3268 phone# you folks got that were hit by MAXIWEBINTRO matches the phone# thats on the website http://www.macrocyberlinc.net wich claims to be a web design company. a whois.net lookup of macrocyberlinc.net shows the contact info of a gentleman in new york city. My macrocyberlinc $9.95 charge said wilmington deleware….this is all very strange
I got an unauthorized charge from Innovative software also(610-579-9414). I called the phone number but the message says the voice mailbox is full. Can’t somebody get these people shut down? It’s amazing that they can commit credit card fraud so many times and stay in business.
I was also hit by Innovative software (610-579-9414). Mail box is full and not accepting new messages at this time. I notified my credit card company immediately.
I also got hit with the bogus charge, not once but twice. One came through on my bank debit card for $9.95 from Macrocyberlinc and the other charge came through on my Capital One card from http://www.insofttech.com. I have been reading a lot of the comments that everyone has posted and agree that Amazon.com is the culprit. In fact, I filed a complaint with the BBB since it is impossible to reach anyone at Amazon.com. Amazon denies that they are at fault (as usual), but I only used both of these cards on their website. I hope this info helps others from this scam.
I also got hit on my visa for 9.95. I read somewhere that it was buy.com, amazon.com, or another site. When I went to AMAZON.COM to cancel my account, I FOUND MY 3 DIGIT CREDIT CARD VERIFICATION NUMBER UNDER MY FULL NAME FIELD!!!
Found a MAXIWEBINTRO charge from 270-778-3268 NJ on my CapitalOne cc for $9.95. I complained loudly, they canceled the charge and I canceled the card. This thread records incidents from June-October 2006. How much more is needed to warrant state and/or federal investigation? The presence of Google ads for Credit Cards call into question the credence of this quaroum.
I got hit also on Aug 29. Which really sucks because I was in the process of evacuating from Hurricane Katrina when some snake steals 9.95 from my credit card. Have yet to dispute the charge since I have been busy trying to piece the rest of my life back together.
I called Amazon today to report my 3 digit verfication number was in my full name. They are looking into it?
(800) 201-7575 Amazon’s Customer Service phone number.
My CC showed a purchase date of 8-17 and a post date of 8-18 to MAXIWEBINTRO for $9.95, from NJ phone 270-7783268. Filed dispute with credit card company 10-31-05.
THE LESSON IS TO BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TALK TO! ALSO BE CAREFUL FROM WHO YOU WORK WITH! There are not only fraudulent people, but fly-by-night fraudulent companies too. I have also been the victim of credit card fraud, but of a different variety. I ordered some product from the company, The Chocolate Bear, located in Benicia California a couple of years ago. In the past 6 months they have charged my credit card twice… even though I haven’t purchased from them again! Trying to call them, their phone number did not work and I received no answer from my emails! I learned that I could reverse the unauthorized charges on my credit card and change my credit card number, but there was nothing I do to alert anyone else who might be a victim! There are many people who don’t even check their credit card bills… or do so only infrequently, and so the people at The Chocolate Bear/American Confections are obviously just trolling through old receipts. You can also report to the Better Business Bureau (look one up in your area) and that I could also file a report for internet fraud. If you are a victim of this or any company, make sure to (1) place a report with the IFCC (as they can shut down the website, which they will apparently do if they get enough complaints), (2) don’t just cancel your credit card but alert them to what has happened, and (3) place a report with the BBB (does little good, but give it a try), it can’t hurt. If any other suggestions, please comment… it is terrible that these people get away with such things! I’m sure that there are a lot of people like me looking for what to do (so I say again: at least do numbers 1 and 2 above!)
I also was hit by Maxiwebintro, but, I have alerted U.S. Secret Servive and also being a biker, we are are looking for this company operators. If the law doesn’t do anything, we WILL!!!
Fûçk the law, we will handle MAXIWEBINTRO! They have fûçkëd over the wrong people!
MAXIWEBINTRO: Who they really are: Registrant: Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc 2101 Rosecrans Ave., #2000 El Segundo, California 90245 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com Domain Name: MAXIWEBINTRO.COM Created on: 16-May-05 Expires on: 16-May-06 Last Updated on: 16-May-05 Administrative Contact: Admin-6, Domain domainadmin@navigationcatalyst.com Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc 2101 Rosecrans Ave., #2000 El Segundo, California 90245 United States (310) 647-1592 Fax — (310) 647-6001 Technical Contact: Admin-6, Domain domainadmin@navigationcatalyst.com Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc 2101 Rosecrans Ave., #2000 El Segundo, California 90245 United States (310) 647-1592 Fax — (310) 647-6001
Well, before you go beat up anyone associated with this address, note that this might be a Mail Boxes, Etc. or something similar: a few other companies share the same address and suite, including Quick Payroll Advance, Superb Debt Settlement, and eMarketMakers. Although, now that I list them out, they all seem to be similar in “dodginess”. Two of the businesses there (new.net and NCS) are “subsidiaries ” of The Vendare Group. I have a feeling there may need to be a blog about Vendare… - RDL
just got my household bank statement i too have a $9.95 charge maxiwebintro number nj phone number 253 660 0328 just goin to call and cancel my card…
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I got a $9.95 charge from maxiwebintro with a phone number of 347-745-2467 also showing NJ. I asked the credit card company to dispute it. They told me this happens a lot.
Looks like I’m the latest to get hit by the MAXIWEBINTRO scam!!!! I also had the phone number of 347-745-2467 come up on my bank statement. I called the phone number and the person on the answering machine just says: “Thanks you for calling the Internet Sales Customer Services.” I have to wait until next week now to talk with my bank.
Since logging this comment onto this site, I filed an online complaint with the FTC and called that number that I provided. It now states that the mailbox is full and gives a different phone number that this is for. The phone number they provide is: 718-501-2529. Looks like the 347-745-2467 actually gets forwarded to the 718-501-2529 number. What gets me mad is I now have to wait until Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006 to take care of this, because my bank is closed on the weekend and is also closed on Monday for the holiday!!! Looks like I’m the latest to get hit by the MAXIWEBINTRO scam!!!! I also had the phone number of 347-745-2467 come up on my bank statement. I called the phone number and the person on the answering machine just says: “Thanks you for calling the Internet Sales Customer Services.” I have to wait until next week now to talk with my bank.
I too recently got hit by the MAXIWEBINTRO scam. I filed a complaint w/ the FTC and also a Fraud claim w/ my bank and along w/ that had my bank card cancelled and now waiting on my new card. I called the (347)745-2467 # on my “transaction detail” and actually spoke to a live person called “Elaina” on 02/28/06. I told her i was aware of the unauthorized bogus charge. She said they’d “mail” me a refund check for the $9.95 (Yeah Right). She took my name and address (i didn’t give her my address, but instead a relatives). I bet she felt like adeer in front of 2 headlights when she heard me on the other end of the line and why. Well, my account got immediately credited by my bank but all of this is just horrible.
I look my sony card statement at transactions. It said MAXIWEBINTRO 347-745-2467. so I called the chase card service they will take care of it. The smart thing thing do is LOOK YOUR TRANSACTIONS BEFORE YOU PAY IT then subtract $9.95 out of your total payment
Well I got zapped with this stupid charge on March 6 2006. I called the number and left a very mean message. I think it is very stupid of companies thinking they can do this. I am so scared now.
i to get scammed by the bogus company. i see a lot of complaints are generated after using the card on amazon.com this is my case also. i called the # left a message someone did call me back from a diffrent # and left a message. called my bank washington mutual the put the money back right away. but here is the scary part i never left my address in my message and they have now sent me a check in the amount $9.95. i’m sure the check will be no good it is from macrocyberlinc william mccarthy signed the check the account is from bank of america