800,000 Credit & Debit Cards Double & Tripled Billed At Wal-Mart
 

If you shopped at Wal-Mart last week might want to check your cc statement.


800,000 Cards Overcharged at Wal-Marts

DENVER - A computer hardware problem caused more than 800,000 credit and debit card transactions to be double- or triple-billed last week at Wal-Mart stores nationwide, according to officials at First Data Corp., which handled the electronic payments.

The excess Visa and Mastercard charges, which occurred Wednesday and were posted on Thursday, have been reversed, First Data spokeswoman Staci Busby said Sunday.

Busby said the problem showed up on reports the company generates for quality control purposes. She said it's unclear how many customers were affected, and that she had no other details about the hardware problem.

"Anyone who conducted a transaction with a Visa or Mastercard on March 31 should check their statements," Busby said.
Busby said some affected customers may not see the reversed charges on their accounts until Tuesday. She said First Data has instituted additional measures as a result of the overbilling.

that's a lot of fucking up. Even if all the orders were only $1 each, that's 1.6 million extra.

LOL wal-mart doesnt have orders
and they refunded them within a few days. No big deal

that's why i pay in cash

No wonder they are so successful

I put evryhting on Amex Corporate Card for the points:Graucho

That's quite a fuck-up! Good to hear they refunded the money quickly though.

well im sure SOME ONE lost their job over this. :glugglug

wow, i wonder if wal-mart is hiring?:1orglaugh

It was a hardware glitch

I meant orders in a general sense... jeez. fu.

sucks to be one of those getting a statement with a bill 3 times larger

thats how I got my job,

it was a hardware glitch


http://www.cse.msu.edu/~postrobe/images/bush-dumb.jpg

I think he's referring to online internet orders for merchandise from walmart.com

:1orglaugh

walmart = scammers

its a good thing that no one from walmart posts on gfy. they'd never get to do business again

April fool? :winkwink:

They teamed up with that one company who sold the paris hilton tape last year:1orglaugh

...and the list of things keeping ludedude even further away from Wal-Mart continue to pour in...

TIme to buy some wal-mart stock tomorrow ;-)

:1orglaugh Not just Walmart. What about First Data corporation?



Credit, Debit Cards May Have Overbilled in Triplicate!

By KYW's John McDevitt
Check your credit card statements. If you used a charge or debt card last Wednesday, you could have been billed up to three times.

Officials at an electronic payments processing company, First Data corporation, say a computer hardware problem caused more than 800-thousand credit and debit card users to be doubled billed and in some cases triple billed. The transactions took place in stores nationwide including Walmart.

Stacy Busby is the Denver-based companies spokeswoman:

"It will probably show up on their April first statement and then those charges should be reversed out so they would only have one bill to charge. And we want people to check and make sure that those are reversed out on their statements to make sure they are not getting over charged for anything."

Busby says the reversals may not show up until Tuesday. For more information, you can call toll free hotline at 888-893-0626.

Busby says "First Data" experienced a computer hardware problem that effected Mastercard and Visa transactions at Wal-Mart and a few other merchant locations. In some of these incidents the problem resulted in triplicate postings to consumer's debit and credit card accounts.



Check your credit card bills.:)

hahahhaha:thumbsup

Paris Hilton cross-sell in mainstream now?