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Thanks to those with actual helpful information. after reviewing my bank information, I don't think my cc was used. I assumed as much, since the purchases said "purchased with credit card." so my first instinct was to removed any saved cc information before any other purchases could be made, and THEN review my credit card activity.
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scea158: Thanks to those with actual helpful information. after reviewing my bank information, I don't think my cc was used. I assumed as much, since the purchases said "purchased with credit card." so my first instinct was to removed any saved cc information before any other purchases could be made, and THEN review my credit card activity.
....lol
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pimpmonkey2382.313: Don't drink and have your credit card on hand.
While not helpful in this case, that's actually sensible advice. I know from experience...
The "low rated" is not deserved.
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pimpmonkey2382.313: Don't drink and have your credit card on hand.
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toxicTom: While not helpful in this case, that's actually sensible advice. I know from experience...
The "low rated" is not deserved.
NO SHIT!

Seriously! What the hell am I supposed to do with the entire run of "Charles In Charge" on BlueRay!?!?!
I like how the guy claims 75 in purchases were made specifically here on GOG, but now somehow doesn't know...? lol
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tinyE: Seriously! What the hell am I supposed to do with the entire run of "Charles In Charge" on BlueRay!?!?!
Only got a DVD player?
You've got 126 chances to impress some girl that you at least own it.
Still, change your password and maybe contact GOG support to make them aware of that purchase. With the order ID, they should be able to do something to fix it for you.
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toxicTom: While not helpful in this case, that's actually sensible advice. I know from experience...
The "low rated" is not deserved.
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tinyE: NO SHIT!

Seriously! What the hell am I supposed to do with the entire run of "Charles In Charge" on BlueRay!?!?!
Use a marathon of that on your captives instead of waterboarding.
Okay, so someone hijacked your account, bought some games with their own money, and now rather than get the password changed, thus kicking the hijacker out of your account and keeping the games they bought for yourself, you want the account deleted? You are about to "inherit" a bunch of free games, why would you just get rid of that?
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cogadh: Okay, so someone hijacked your account, bought some games with their own money, and now rather than get the password changed, thus kicking the hijacker out of your account and keeping the games they bought for yourself, you want the account deleted? You are about to "inherit" a bunch of free games, why would you just get rid of that?
Intoxication. Gets the best of the worst of us.
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cogadh: Okay, so someone hijacked your account, bought some games with their own money, and now rather than get the password changed, thus kicking the hijacker out of your account and keeping the games they bought for yourself, you want the account deleted? You are about to "inherit" a bunch of free games, why would you just get rid of that?
Those games were probably bought as gifts with a stolen credit card. They are not in his account. The thief has likely sold the keys on G2A or some other shady site. And the unlucky buyer will likely have the games removed as soon as the real credit cardholder revokes the purchase.
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cogadh: Okay, so someone hijacked your account, bought some games with their own money, and now rather than get the password changed, thus kicking the hijacker out of your account and keeping the games they bought for yourself, you want the account deleted? You are about to "inherit" a bunch of free games, why would you just get rid of that?
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RWarehall: Those games were probably bought as gifts with a stolen credit card. They are not in his account. The thief has likely sold the keys on G2A or some other shady site. And the unlucky buyer will likely have the games removed as soon as the real credit cardholder revokes the purchase.
Possibly, but most of the account hijackings that have been seen so far are just people trying to gain access to games already in an account, not to use it as a front for fraudulent gift purchases. There are entire sites out there where you can buy compromised GOG, Steam, Origin, pretty much any game service's accounts and have been for years. The purpose of these sites is not to provide and "end run" around things like GOG's gifting restrictions, which are relatively recent. It is far more likely that this is yet another account bought from a sketchy Russian forum solely for the purpose of obtaining an already populated library.
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cogadh: Possibly, but most of the account hijackings that have been seen so far are just people trying to gain access to games already in an account, not to use it as a front for fraudulent gift purchases. There are entire sites out there where you can buy compromised GOG, Steam, Origin, pretty much any game service's accounts and have been for years. The purpose of these sites is not to provide and "end run" around things like GOG's gifting restrictions, which are relatively recent. It is far more likely that this is yet another account bought from a sketchy Russian forum solely for the purpose of obtaining an already populated library.
This isn't the first time people have posted about this. The credit card scammers have started to do this ever since GoG prevented new accounts from buying gifts. For anyone thinking G2A and Kinguin are such great deals, just wait until the game gets removed from your account...
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RWarehall: Those games were probably bought as gifts with a stolen credit card. They are not in his account. The thief has likely sold the keys on G2A or some other shady site. And the unlucky buyer will likely have the games removed as soon as the real credit cardholder revokes the purchase.
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cogadh: Possibly, but most of the account hijackings that have been seen so far are just people trying to gain access to games already in an account, not to use it as a front for fraudulent gift purchases. There are entire sites out there where you can buy compromised GOG, Steam, Origin, pretty much any game service's accounts and have been for years. The purpose of these sites is not to provide and "end run" around things like GOG's gifting restrictions, which are relatively recent. It is far more likely that this is yet another account bought from a sketchy Russian forum solely for the purpose of obtaining an already populated library.
Except that the OP specifically states that whoever got access to his account spent bought $75 worth of games. There's pretty much no reason someone would log into a stranger's account to spend their own money on games which would then be tied to the aforementioned stranger's account; therefore the intruder was either very, very, very stupid, or he was using stolen card data to buy gift codes to sell or trade elsewhere.
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cogadh: Possibly, but most of the account hijackings that have been seen so far are just people trying to gain access to games already in an account, not to use it as a front for fraudulent gift purchases. There are entire sites out there where you can buy compromised GOG, Steam, Origin, pretty much any game service's accounts and have been for years. The purpose of these sites is not to provide and "end run" around things like GOG's gifting restrictions, which are relatively recent. It is far more likely that this is yet another account bought from a sketchy Russian forum solely for the purpose of obtaining an already populated library.
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HunchBluntley: Except that the OP specifically states that whoever got access to his account spent bought $75 worth of games. There's pretty much no reason someone would log into a stranger's account to spend their own money on games which would then be tied to the aforementioned stranger's account; therefore the intruder was either very, very, very stupid, or he was using stolen card data to buy gift codes to sell or trade elsewhere.
They most likely were using a stolen credit card, as you mentioned. There's plenty of reason to gain access an already-existing account for that purpose, since too new accounts cannot purchase gifts via credit card so creating a new account would not work.
Post edited October 31, 2015 by Maighstir