The best advice. Always follow up by calling where a charge was made because further transactions may be made & probably will be if someone's making illegal charges to a credit card.OP, yes, I've had my credit card number stolen while at a WDW resort. Call the other hotel today and find out what the charge is for and who authorized it. Check to see if it is still showing on your account before you call.
yes, it can and does happen. WDW is no different form anywhere else in that respect, but given the time frame that this happened and the scenario he described it's highly unlikely that the employee did it in this situation.Y'all have short memories.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/ex-disney-world-worker-busted-for-stealing-from-employee-locker-room/https://mydisneydorks.com/2018/02/02/credit-card-fraud-operation-broken-up-on-disney-world-property/https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...7E06025FE45B61F159D17E06025FE45B61F&FORM=VIREhttps://www.wesh.com/article/disney-hotel-clerk-accused-of-stealing-nearly-49k/25574122#
Now that you bring it up, I am the one that scans my card, not the CM. The CM never touches it at all. If the CM insisted they take the card, that is suspect and requires more scrutinyWith the CC readers in place on the counters at the front desk, there should be no reason to hand the CM your CC. If they need the information, they should have you insert it into the reader.
Yes, I usually check in online, but made a TouringPlans room request before I had done it, so didn’t want it overwritten.
The very first time? No other transactions what so ever at all! No online transactions, such as putting a deposit on your disney vacation? Absolutely no one else ever handled or saw that card in any way? If that is truly the case (I'm not doubting just trying to follow your timeline) then there was NO other way for a criminal, cyber or otherwise, to get your info. So that would definately make one wonder.Thanks. It’s frustrating for sure. This was actually the first time it had been used. It’s all very suspicious, the timing between transactions was only 2 minutes apart and were both during the time I was at the Front desk. The employee had the card for a longer period than usual as I had not checked in online like I usually do so I didn’t pay special attention.
That's incorrect.The very first time? No other transactions what so ever at all! No online transactions, such as putting a deposit on your disney vacation? Absolutely no one else ever handled or saw that card in any way? If that is truly the case (I'm not doubting just trying to follow your timeline) then there was NO other way for a criminal, cyber or otherwise, to get your info. So that would definately make one wonder.
The AKL front desk can't identify the transaction because the Wyndham is NOT a Disney owned & operated resort.
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They grabbed a random number in hopes it will work. The odds that they grabbed a random number, it worked, and it just so happened that it was used at a establishment only a few miles from where the OP was within minutes of his transaction at Disney. Those would have to be the biggest odds in the history of the world. Not arguing your analysis just tossing up reasonable doubt.That's incorrect.
They can obtain entire runs of numbers before cards even go out and try them in hopes that they strike an active one.
There are several ways to grab a card number prior to first use. Not common but possible.
And there's always just a typo as others have mentioned.