Yikes! Ordered from Hometown Favorites lately?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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If you have, watch your email…I got four weird emails a couple days ago that each said:

"We recently tried to charge your credit card for your HomeTownFavorites.com order (order #XXXXX) and it was rejected by the bank because it has not complete infomation.

To update the credit card infomation details for your order, please select this link:

http://HomeTownFavorites.info/veri.php?orderid=XXXXX&zip=XXXXX

Thanks!
HomeTownFavorites.com"

Which was weird, because we hadn’t ordered anything from there since May, and even if we had ordered recently, that’s pretty suspicious. So, I went off to the website and found their customer service email and forwarded the message asking what was up, and this is what I got back:

"Webfoot.net, the webmaster for Hometown Favorites, LLC (www.hometownfavorites.com) has experienced an attack on their database securing information from customers of Hometown Favorites. Customer information, including credit card information, may have been compromised. Additionally, customers may receive “phishing” e-mails from this attacker, requesting additional personal information.

These are the credit card number(s) we had on file for you which could have been compromised:

Order Date Credit Card #
5/3/2006 ************XXXX

We are recommending that customers of Hometown Favorites who have purchased products by credit card take the following steps to mitigate any possible fraud using either your credit card or your personal information…[standard stuff]"

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I also have ordered from Hometown Favorites before. I used my card and about two days ago, there was 5 emails from them that said there was a problem with my order. They couldn’t process it due to missing information about my credit card. I thought it was odd, since I haven’t ordered from there in months. It was also odd because I got all 5 emails within an hour. I recieved the email today to watch out for it, but thanks for the extra warning. Sad what some people will do… :frowning:

At least I haven’t heard of a lot of people being taken by this yet.

Brendon

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Me, too. I justed deleted the message without reading it, thinking it was a “special offer” or something like that. Now I know.