check your credit card bills.
Published June 11th, 2005 in Newsi just logged on to my capital one credit card account and noticed a charge that i definitely didn’t authorize, further investigation read: google
turned up this. apparently it is a credit card fraud (take that page rank!) scheme that is affecting hundreds, if not more, people. that particular card has been inactive for many months, so the possibility of the number getting passed at a restaurant or something is low. once at their website, you get a blatant “what is KCSOFTLLC.com billing me for?” link that is just a data mining form without and verification on it. anyway, its a total scam, the amount was for 9.95. seems like they last hit in aug/sept and now again march/june as there is a periodicity to the complaints. worth a good scan of the activity.
Is this Visa or MC? Was it hard to get off. I gotta start chking mine better.
visa - capital one, not hard, had to close the account and reopen. sign an affadavit and all that…
10/11/07
This KCSOFTLLC.COM scam is STILL being used. I got scammed today, this scam is OVER 3 years old already, can’t anyone stop them?
I got scammed by KCSOFTLLC.COM today. A $9.95 Money Order charge at 3pm EST from Rochester, NY (I live in WASHINGTON). BEWARE, BEWARE!
Just noticed a $9.95 charge to my Visa card dated 11/30/07 from KCSOFTLLC COM . I did not make any charges that day. Unbelievable that this credit card fraud can go on for years and years.
I had a fraudulent charge of $9.95 from kcsoftllc.com show up on my Visa card. The transaction was dated 11/19/2007.
I cannot believe how our law enforcement agencies can allow these thieves to operate for such a long time with total impunity. No doubt this is an organized crime operation and not some punk teenager messing around.
I cant believe this is such an old scam! I got charged $9.95 by them today (02-19-08) on my debit visa. They must have stolen so much money already. I tried to go on the website, but i guess its no longer working. I dont know how they are still doing this.
I have to thank all of you for posting your comments! Without them I may have never known that this was a scam. I noticed today 06-05-08 that there was a charge of 9.95 from KCSOFTLLC with a phone number. Of course the phone number did not work. So I looked up KCSOFTLLC on the internet and found all the people that also are victims. I was able to get the bank to cancel the check card immediately so that no further charges will be tagged on. I have found also that we are going to be forced to use check and debit cards more so now than in the past - everyday I see new establishments that are no longer accepting checks. What a field day for the scammers.
I just got hit too. Thanks for the posts. I didn’t even bother to call the company thanks to you all, just my CC.
Can you believe these jokers are still pulling this same stunt and our incompetent law enforcement agencies do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to shut them down?
I wrote to the Attorney General about this incident when it happened and got back a polite reply telling me “it’s not THEIR problem” - in so many words. I also wrote the Secret Service who I understand has jurisdiction on these matters, and they thanked me for telling them probably what they already know, and most likely tossed my letter in the garbage can. Makes you wonder how many people get charged and dismiss it as something they ordered but forgot about. I almost did this figuring my son, who sometimes uses my credit card, had bought something over the internet.
They need to set up a national academy to teach law enforcement agents how to track and arrest these criminals. As it stands now, law enforcement is WAY behind on the learning curve and these crooks are more than happy to exploit either their inability to stop/catch them or simple indifference to these crimes.