"App Store Beijing" Credit Card Fraud

Nah ive never used itunes before in my life.... So this is totally random for me, I did buy somestuff from that cybersale on monday. My bank is waiting too see if the pending transactions even go threw, if they do then they will take action which will take anywhere from 2-3 weeks, so i will be getting rid of this bank soon for this reason. 3 weeks to get my money that i need tmrw for rent is alil rediculous. Wait i use my card for world of warcraft too forgot about that.

i use paypay not 100% shure were the charges came from because i use that card for all my online paypal refunded me the 103.29 and .16 amount with in 24 hours plus one one over draft fee because my paypal is linked to my checking account my bank is aware of the problem and are going to refund anymore over draft fees i had to bring my paypal transation dispute papers and i coppyed this post to prove im not the only one to have this happen i use netflix and we have a play station network acount and me my hubby and teenager all use itunes so again not sure were the charges came from but i was able to find the fraud charges with in 48 hours but they ended up hitting my bank but paypal came through for me. i also had one from another charge of 8.88 but paypay said somthing didnt match up so merchent or who ever was trying to take it out backed out of the transation so there are other names not just the china one check all your transactions.

well they dropped off and came back at a totally diff price even tho the acc has no money in it and now they are from app store chcnn instead of beijing.

About two days ago I had 2 transactions from APP STORE CHNC for 102.67 I had called my bank and they refunded the money because I was going to go in the negative for some transaction that i didn't do and did a fraud report and froze my card and mailing me a new card. I woke up today and checked my account again and i had 2 more charges from APP STORE BEIJING this TIME for 103.26. I would really like to know who is doing this??? during Christmas time when money is already tight in today's economy. I read some comments and people said that it was netflix?? If so I am going to call them and tear them a new one and canceling they will forever lose my business..

Well I wouldn't jump to conclusions but yes it seems that Netflix is common among all of us. I don't currently use Netflix but my card was still on-file there. There is a possibility that all of our cards where stolen from different sites and someone (or people) just bought our numbers from a black market site.

I had 3 charges......0.16, a $50 charge and a $20 charge. All the charges took place in the early AM time frame, with the 0.16 charge occuring first than 2 minutes later the other 2 charges. So I have canceled the card. Not sure what was linked to that card....My Itunes account had a different account linked, but have removed it. I recently traveled to Philly, but didnt use that card.

Found this thread after finding Charges on my account also ($0.16)

Few things

1) I Don't have an iTunes account.

2) Don't have a netflix account.

We discovered this morning that my husband's CC was hacked for a 52.xx charge and a separate .16 charge from ITUNES STORE BEIJING. Like others in this thread, we need to wait for the charge to post before we can dispute it.

Although his bank card is connected to his iTunes he rarely, if ever, uses iTunes and he does very little online other than check his email.

I found 6 charges from today when checking for some deposits to my bank account online. Some say the itunes Bejing store and others say the itunes CA store. Total charges were for around $225.00!!!

I called my bank and they canceled my debit card and then I called Itunes. I hope to have this remedied in a couple of days.

Upsetting. I do have a netflix account but am thinking of changing that account too so the *astards can't hack into anything else.

The funny thing is Itunes Customer Service asked me to give them the order numbers associated with the charges, but the charges aren't showing up in my Itunes account. So, not sure how it all happened.

Sigh.

abznthuphoria wrote:

I'm trying to find out if it's even relevant to the Apple App Store, or if it's just a fake company name.

If it is from Apple, you should have received an email receipt for your "purchases." I'm guessing that you have not received an email about these purchases, and it is most likely a faker. And plus, it would be charged under "iTunes Store," not "App Store Beijing." And mine doesn't say "App Store California."

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It says "itunes store CA" it also gives a phone number for the Itunes help number, in the debit line on my bank account. same thing with the bejing charge..says "itunes store bejing" and then has an 888 number of some sort right after it. Both numbers connect with itunes.

I have the itunes folks working on this.

No, I didn't get a receipt for the purchase. I think the hacker set up their own account, using my personal information, and that is why it seems legitimate and I didn't get the email because they used their own.

This happend to me over the weekend. I had one charge of 1.00 and 2 more charges for 10.79. I called itunes but they have nothing showing on my account for these purchases. The charges look nothing like the legit itunes transactions on my account.

Since the charges are not showing up on your iTuns account, it is likely someone stole your credit card number when you used it somewhere. They then used it to open an iTunes account and make some purchases.