Home Offers Mall

Victim Location 98045

Type of a scam Online Purchase

I was shopping on-line and was looking for a particular item. Many reputable on-line stores such as Amazon, WalMart, e-bay, had that item out of stock, so I did the Google search for the product.

One of the search returns was the https://homeoffersmall.com and it had that item in stock. It had a look of the on-line store that is being used. Meaning there are item descriptions, feedback including positive and negative, so it had look and feel of a normal on-line store. It had cart checkout process set up with different payment options.

However, when I was going through a checkout process, and after entering my card number, expiration day and the security 3-digit number, it returns an error "Your card has been declined by our Merchant Gateway". I tried a couple more times verifying that I didn’t mistype the number (which happens), but each time, it was ‘your card has been declined’ error.

I abandoned the purchase. A day later, I got an email (my email address I entered during the checkout process) with my purchase information informing that my order is not paid for and suggesting to use another card to complete the order.

Three days later, my credit card was hit with unauthorized charges.

The summary: That on-line store http://homeoffersmall.com is a fake store to scam credit card information and then to use it to place unauthorized purchases.