Credit Card Fraud
I purchased my first grow light from Mars Hydro a few weeks ago. About 30 minutes ago, I received an email from my credit card company warning me that the virtual card that I created for mars-hydro.com was used to make an online purchase at kohls.com. The card was declined. I called my credit card company and made them aware of the attemped fraud. I also called the contact number for Mars Hydro but it went straight to a very generic sounding voice mail. These types of virtual card numbers are created at the time of purchase by the cc company and never stored outside the company servers. Here is the email. "Your Kohl's purchase was declined because you used a virtual card number you created for mars-hydro.com. Each virtual card number is designed to work with only one merchant." Update: My credit card company has informed me that another attempted charge, this time to Etsy.com, was just made using the same virtual card created for mars-hydro.com about 3 hours after the first one.