Fraudulent AdWords charges

Just discovered today that someone has made nearly $6,000 in fraudulent charges against one of our company credit cards for Google AdWords. We have never, ever, had an AdWords campaigne and have intention of ever having one in the future.

The charges started small, around $65 the last of May, and then daily charges began the first of June for ever-increasing amounts. I suspect whoever it is was working their way to our credit limit.

We called the card issuer and had no trouble at all. They immediately recognized it as fraud and are investigating.

What I want to know is, has this happened to anyone else? Do you think it is Google (or someone inside Google) or one of our suppliers that has our card numbers? We have been very careful about card security and have given the numbers only to our suppliers.

Also, since the card issuer has removed the charges, the fraud is essentially aganst them, not us. As such, is the card issuer likely, or required, to tell us who did this ... assuming they find out? If it's one of our suppliers, we need to know so we can terminate them.

Thanks.

"is the card issuer likely, or required, to tell us who did this ... assuming they find out? If it's one of our suppliers, we need to know so we can terminate them."

The way I see it, it's your card, your bank or credit card company has to tell you what is going on with your financial accounts. Ask your business banker (or card issuer customer service) for all the details. After all, neither of you wants a repeat of the problem. The last time I ran into major credit card fraud it turned out to be a trusted employee. You just never know...

Best Wishes,
dvdtvshows of dvdtvshows.com

Maybe I'm confused? They were paying their Google ad words bill with your credit card? If that's the case can't you find them by the content of their ads? After all if they are running ads they must be selling something or else what would be the point?

Then again maybe there is something I didn't get here.

All I know is, the card issuer knows who it was but will not tell us. The entire amount was removed from the account and we were issued another card wirth another number and another CVV.

I suspect it was someone connected with Google or the card issuer. Hence, the secrecy.