Category: Credit Card Fraud

Being a small business owner is hard work. Promoting the business, balancing the checkbook, paying the creditors, paying your employees, and more. It’s a lot to manage, but it all falls on your shoulders. 

As the “shop small” movement continues to expand, it means your life will only continue to become busier – especially in the upcoming weeks.  This is great news for you! 

The not so great news? 

One slip-up when it comes to keeping things in order could mean facing charges of credit card fraud. As a North Carolina business owner, [...]

Spending goes up around the holiday season, including credit card transactions. Unfortunately, some criminals use this opportunity to fraudulently collect others’ credit card information, which is commonly referred to as skimming.

A rash of credit card fraud was recently discovered in Union County, including several reports of suspicious, unauthorized bank transactions.

Police report that the card information was likely obtained through the use of skimmers. These devices are illicitly installed on credit card readers, and then used to collect credit card information.

As of this writing, this investigation is ongoing, and police are [...]