My mother just found a fraudulent charge on her credit card. Besides contacting the credit card company, is there any place to report this? Any government agency?
Thanks
The Secret Service investigates cc fraud and identity theft.
Here’s a link for you: United States Secret Service Financial Crimes Division.
You can also file a police report locally.
It can be very difficult to substantiate a suspect in most cases - as long as she’s contacted the bank and cooperates with the investigation, the charges will be removed.
Yes they do, but they won’t investigate small-time fraudulent charges or individual cases.
The SS typically goes after such crimes that are high profile in nature, involving worldwide/nationwide crime networks/syndicates or widespread fraud activity on a large scale in the million-dollar range or greater.
I don’t know what their exact minimum is though for opening an investigation, but for federal law enforcement agencies, any fraud case involving less than a million dollars is considered chump change, at which they’ll invariably thumb their noses at, and tell you to call the local cops or file a civil lawsuit for.