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Be on the lookout for a recent $9.84 charge on your debit or credit card. It might be part of a massive, worldwide scam.

Thieves are using stolen payment cards to make small charges that could easily go unnoticed. The charges are attributed to generic-looking websites such as EETsac.com, CEWcs.com and EduAcc.in, which claim to offer customer support services.

The Better Business Bureau, a consumer protection group, put out a national alert about the scam on Monday. The organization urged people to closely monitor past and current credit card statements and to call the actual card-issuing banks to resolve the issues.

It's not yet clear how widespread the fraud might be or how and when the affected credit card numbers were stolen. The Better Business Bureau and the nation's two major credit card companies, Visa and MasterCard, weren't immediately able to provide numbers.

The scam was first uncovered by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who found that it's part of a network of schemes stretching from Cyprus and India to the United Kingdom. He traced the operation to two men from Cyprus and a Malta-based bank that was processing the debit and credit card payments.

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Lucky for me I don't own a credit card. I'm as safe as safe can be.

 

Well credit cards usually provide better protection than a debit card. Of course if you do not need electronic payments then well, you are indeed safer.

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