Did you get an email or an unknown, unauthorized credit card charge from mcfnsd. Did you know that you gave your credit card to someone named Ntiana in Cyprus? You might be the victim of a scam. You need to act quickly. We are not associated in any way with the sites mentioned in this article. You will need to act quickly. After reading this article, I encourage you to verify this information for your self. Lets review what probably happened… What is mcfnsd. The short gibberish name is used for discreet billing. The charge might appear with the customer service number such as: mcfnsd. You might have been scammed. It depends on how you got there. A branded dating site is my term for a front end to a white label dating service company. A white label dating company provides website operations, a pre-populated membership database, and billing services in a generic fashion for the branded dating site. Basically, the branded site owner puts up a facade website, and connects it to a white label dating service. The white label company collects the money and pays the branded dating site owners when new members sign up for the service. If you did not knowingly sign up for Music Fans Find Love, then you probably signed up for something that advertised as free, but in reality there were hidden or hard to find charges. How Does The Scam Work? For date verification: You meet someone online, and they express interest in you. They tell you they want to meet in person, but first you must verify to prove you are not a serial killer or something along those lines. The site asks for your credit card to verify you. Here is a sample of what some of them look like:. Charges are deliberately hidden using a program command called iframe. The Date Verification scam site connects to a click-generating web site, that sends you to a dating site. In your case it was musicfansfindlove. Since you do not know about the sign up, you could not know to cancel the subscription before the trial period ended. It is a complex network. You can read the detail of how it works in this article: Here is a rough outline of the network: The Cam or Hookup scam: Is much more straight forward, they hide the charges or make them hard to find during the sign up. The owner of Music Fans Find Love — musicfansfindlove. The contact number is: 866 438-3863. The registered director is Ntiana Tsamourlidou. Company information in Cyprus is from paid services. I cannot verify the information there — it could be falsified. There are many shell companies in Turkish Cyprus. Generally, I do not recommend that you contact them because it just adds to the risks. I do not know the identity of the white label dating company. Risk of Identity Theft and Additional Charges Staffordish Limited appears to be a small shell company operating in Cyprus. They do not view themselves bound by U. They have alarming, high-risk privacy policies. A quick summary of the privacy policy states that they will collect your personal and financial information and you should not consider any information exchanged with them private. The privacy policy can be found at. Here is a snip But Wait! This will result in a high rate of spam and sooner or later, a phishing attempt. Who Has Your Credit Card and Personal Information? Odds are that the operator of mcfnsd. Staffordish Limited probably has the ability to retrieve it and use it. Bottom Line: A shell company that is using a service with unknown origin, sharing your information as they see fit, and high risk security policies and unknown practices. This is a high risk situation. There is no accountability. What You Should Do About a Credit Card Charge From mcfnsd. None of the above is familiar If you are researching information from an email… If you received an email about a trial-period membership and have not yet been charged you are still within the trial period , then you need to visit or call mcfnsd. You are lucky, most people do not see an email. I do not like the fact that you need to interact with them further. However if you are aware of the situation, then you are probably required to make the effort per your cardholder agreement. I still advise that you cancel the card, and sign up for a credit monitoring service. Click the green button above for more information. This is a serious situation, but as long as you keep cool and act, you will probably be fine. Thank you and good luck.
