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So, long story short, wife noticed a charge in her account which she never made. She called the company (it's a large one) to tell them she had been defrauded, they are reversing the charge as it was clear to them also it's fraud (especially since the mailing delivery address is in Cali).
As circumstances were, they didn't ship the order yet, but, they did tell my wife to call the police in California, give them the Fed Ex account number and have the police call them back for the details as they have their name and address.
I thought it was an odd approach, so I told my wife, "do what they say, but I think they should call them not you". Regardless, my wife called the police in Cali, and the officer she spoke to told her "it doesn't work like that" and advised her to call OUR police in Ontario (why?). They even went so far as to say "unfortunately, this person might not be caught (huh?)"
We are concerned of someone else being a victim of fraud because this company had been hacked in the past and this account information is what they probably used to make another order (quite a large one, different items surely).
Does contacting OUR police for a fraud case in California make sense to any of you? I have to say, it doesn't make sense to me.
As circumstances were, they didn't ship the order yet, but, they did tell my wife to call the police in California, give them the Fed Ex account number and have the police call them back for the details as they have their name and address.
I thought it was an odd approach, so I told my wife, "do what they say, but I think they should call them not you". Regardless, my wife called the police in Cali, and the officer she spoke to told her "it doesn't work like that" and advised her to call OUR police in Ontario (why?). They even went so far as to say "unfortunately, this person might not be caught (huh?)"
We are concerned of someone else being a victim of fraud because this company had been hacked in the past and this account information is what they probably used to make another order (quite a large one, different items surely).
Does contacting OUR police for a fraud case in California make sense to any of you? I have to say, it doesn't make sense to me.
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