Is LINKDEB card withdrawal a card fraud scam?
Have you noticed a bank direct debit from LINKDEB? First point, this means that your bank card has been registered on an online site. By whom, why? This is what we will try to identify:
Unless your bank card has disappeared and a stranger has used it to register on a website, there is a good chance that you are the originator of this LINKDEB subscription. Quite often, people who enter their bank details as part of trial offers or simply to prove their majority or identity are unaware that they are in fact signing up for a monthly or bi-monthly subscription.
In this sense, the direct debit cannot be considered a scam because it is not strictly speaking a bank card hacking.
Here are some examples that can lead to surprising and unexpected speeds: a trial offer on a clairvoyance site (for example '30 minutes for 1 euro '), a small subscription for a dating site or even a video site and other content for adults which required proof of majority by entering their bank card numbers… All these examples have the same consequence: that of subscribing to an online service billed regularly until you request its termination…
Where does the LINKDEB direct debit come from?
As explained above, this flow is the consequence of a subscription to an online service.
Our diagnosis: According to the feedback from Internet users who have observed this type of flow, it seems that the CB LINKDEB withdrawal is the consequence of a subscription to an adult content site (adult dating or videos for example) or to a clairvoyance site. Don't you remember having taken out a subscription? Maybe it's because you thought you were just entering your bank details for a little trial offer (or even to prove your majority or your identity). Many sites offer 'trade mechanics' in order to sell subscriptions.
Please note: this direct debit is recurring. Remember to take steps to terminate it so as not to be charged in the next few months.
How to stop LINKDEB direct debits?
There are two solutions to stop withdrawals from LINKDEB and terminate any subscription taken out against your will:
- 'I want to manage on my own': the solution (free)
- Identify the site at the origin of these withdrawals: on which site did you enter your bank card details?
- Once you have found the site, connect to it (if you have a current subscription with them, you have created an account in the past)
- Once logged in, you will usually find the unsubscribe procedure in the site settings
- 'I prefer to let a pro handle the problem': go through a service provider such as Sos Internet to help you stop direct debits LINKDEB:
- They take care of the identification searches of the company that takes your money
- They carry out the termination procedures
- They send you a confirmation email once everything is stopped
Can I block my card with my bank to stop LINKDEB direct debits?
If it is a card fraud, that is to say, if the card has been lost and used by a third party, you can declare it lost with your banker. You will also be able to open a fraud file to try to obtain a refund (this point is to be discussed directly with your bank advisor).
If you are still in possession of your card, it is very unlikely that it is a card hack: in this case, you have entered your bank details and have validated the GTC (General Conditions of Sale) which informed you about a possible subscription: blocking the card would therefore mean not honoring a contract for which you have signed up. We therefore do not recommend blocking your credit card.
The legal point : in March 2018, the court of cassation accepted the culpable negligence of a customer who had transmitted his data to a fraudulent site. This is the reason why a banker may refuse to block your card if you are the originator of the subscription.
It's incredible how active the grazers are on the internet and we are not suspicious of all these scams in good faith but they hide the personal information behind the offer and have no way of knowing it before discovering that your hard-earned money is being taken from you and so easily stolen by people who don't even live in France. Afterwards we said to ourselves that we were stupid and that we should have been wary but it is not in our morals or our habits but I think that we will have to be able to protect ourselves from these recurring scams and that the law obliges crooks like them to report that we will pay after their poisoned gift which is very difficult to get rid of. Be vigilant and careful on all sites that are omnipresent on the internet. I myself have been a victim more than once and I assure you that it is not fun to get rid of the burden that we ourselves have created through ignorance or inadvertence. The Internet should be much more secure today. It is unacceptable that we can be stolen so easily when the perpetrators of these offenses are all in foreign countries.