OT strange google charge?

Someone has stolen your credit card information and is testing to see if you notice. Call your provider and report fraud.

GOOGLE *Kanetik is from when I bought the Wakey app, which is supposed to keep the screen lit up when apps I've listed in it are running. It slightly works.

The same method I used to figure this out did not work for Google *Hongwen and entering Hongwen in the Playstore app found a bunch of apps, none of which I have. But okay, I probably did buy something.

But I haven't bought anything in the last 2 months, certainly not today.

I have not looked, but Google as a vendor must have a link somewhere in your profile listing everything you have purchased from them.

I think you are right. Come to think, I think I found it once and turned off what I thought was everything. I figured I'd have to give approval if I ever wanted to buy an app again, but I didn't.

I will look for that list. If it's not on the list, Cindy is right.

myaccount.google.com Even after logging in, this was sort of a dead end.

Each item has a place to report a problem, and one of the reasons you can give is that you purchased it by accident. I should have doned that with Tunein. I'll do better next time.

The 1.5 on Oct 16 was for Trim Recording, it may be called. The icon looks different. Image of a microphone but I bought one with VA in it for Voice Activation, and this one doesn't have that. Anyhow, it's voice activated and works pretty well. The same company had another one that it said was voice activated but reading the settings it said to get this one.

Finally: 3 payments of $0.52 cent for Google One. I don't remember signing up for that. And why was the 3rd refunded but not the first two. I will have to look into google one.

I just had a look. I opened gmail on the computer, then looked at the apps offerings (I hoped to see "google pay" or similar). I saw:

So I just invented an URL, and entered

So I found where to see app related purchases, but not everything I paid.

There is a link to:

Ah!

I have seen the page but I don't know what it is. The page asks question before starting which I don't know yet what to answer.

It might be disk space for google drive and backups :-?

I didn't see anywhere you acknowledged Cindy, and you should, because I'm pretty sure her explanation is the correct one.

Exactly as she said: people who have stolen credit-card numbers start small, because they know that most people ignore small charges. (You worked pretty hard in a couple articles to explain why you actually made these charges that you have no memory of.)

It's for exactly this reason that I have an alert set on each of my credit cards to text me when there's any charge to my card, in any amount.

Most credit-card providers have a dedicated phone number for reporting frauds and possible frauds. The agent will be able to give you more information than appears online or on your paper statement, and that will help you decide whether your credit card has been compromised.

If it hasn't, great. But if it has, you want your bank to know ASAP because you're legally on the hook for charges, even fraudulent ones, if you don't report them within a certain time. Yes, many banks give greater protection than the minimum the law requires, but why take chances?

I try to always use my low-limit Visa < $ 500. > or my pre-paid credit card < usually only ~ $ 200. loaded >

for most online shopping, if it's an unknown vendor. It's just for some peace of mind - my everyday credit card has ~ $ 7500. limit that I'd hate to get hacked for. I've seen online auction sites that place a small charge on the credit card when the first bid is made - as a test, I guess - $ 1. but it never shows to the cardholder as it is cancelled soon after. John T.

I think it was an European version of paypal called Click'n'Buy that would do that. Charge a nominal sum and reverse it immediately as a test. My newserver is at the Freie Universitat Berlin and costs 10 Erus a year. The transaction would get flagged every year. I was happy when they went with paypal.

OT. Are you bored and trying to troll again?

Yes, I think that's what it is, but I don't remember signing up for that either.

A couple years back I did find a whole bunch of my photos on the google website, even though I didn't do anything that I recall to put them there, but it didn't have the tourist photos that were in the phone that was stolen in 2019. I'm not too upset at th emissing photos. I have plenty more.

(I was glad that I took 2 debit cards and 2 credit cards on the trips and only had one of each in my wallet. My wallet was stolen too. So I lost some money but really wasn't inconvenienced at all.)

But there were no 52 cent charges back then. Maybe it was free and now I need more? and more costs money? But how come it didn't give me more and start charging me when it stopped copying my photos some time before spring of 2019?

Rhetorical questions I don't expect people here to answer. The ways of a computer are like the ways of a woman, hard to understand.

I had already done so further down when I said that if Carlos was not right then Cindy was right.

So do I and I think I got an alert for the last of these little charges but not for the ones last month!! I will have to review again.

Although the minimum on one card to get an alert is $1 and this one was

When my wallet was stolen in the spring of 2019, I was in Europe and I called one bank, fine, and I tried to call the other Sat. morning and the recording said the system was down. I continued to try to call (using phones borrowed from strangers) and tried via computer (from some coffee shop with a computer people could use) until Sunday afternoon before I got through on either the phone or the computer. When I got home, I tried to write them to tell them that the reporting software should be on a separate system that never goes down because it only does one simple thing and never needs updating, but they have no email address. I resorted to telling one of their people on the phone but I dont' know if they ever fixed it. This is a big bank but one no one on the east coast has ever heard of.

Meanwhile, there were no charges on either card (from different banks),

Thanks for the warning.

April 24th Youtube charged me 4.23 and May 3 it charged $3.17 for "other". Now we're talking real money. I've never watched more than a minute or 2 on the phone on youtube, although maybe if Youtube is owned by google, so this refers to movies I watched on the computer. That would be fine. I have done that. That's probably what this is.

No more strange charges until I go back to December.

Last December there are 3 Amazon charges but this isnt' the card I use for Amazon. Aha, wouldn't charges show up on this credit card's bill if I were using points from this credit card? Yes, I think that is it!!! Good

The online statements for Capitol One only go back a year. (Capitol One is the one I got for "no foreign transaction fees" and then when I was abroad, it wouldn't let me log in until it verified it was me by sending a text or phone call to my phone, but it only had my USA number. I didn't know my foreign number until I got there. And it wouldn't use an email instead and when I called the 800 number as instructed, she wouldn't make it better. She said I should have used the phone app before I left the USA, which implies that the phone would still have worked even though the phone number would have changed. I'm not sure that's true and they never told me to use it anyhow. I use the computer for bank statements.)

Every payment I've ever made to google shows up here

that's music subscriptions, one-off charges for movies, android app purchases, nexus/chromecast/pixel devices ... going back to 2011.

Thanks.

They want to verify it's me with a method I personally find too burdensome (Cindy will tell you how lazy I can be.) :

Google wants to make sure it's you trying to view your Google Payments info snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com

Get your Redmi Note 8 Pro (It's not even turned on.) Open the Settings app Tap Google Choose your account, if it not already selected Tap Manage your Google Account Select the Security tab (you may need to scroll to the right) Under "Signing in to Google" tap Security code Choose an account to get your code

Maybe I'll do this later when the phone is on, but now I figured maybe they sent me an email too. They hadn't but it reminded me I haven't been reading my gmail. I tried to forward it to my pop3 mailreader but haven't succeeeded yet. So no wonder I don't know about these charges. (I forget that gmail even exists.) The most recent gmail says I'm now subscribed to 100GB of google one for 2.10 a month. I don't remember ever doing that, and that's 25 dollars a year. That's real money. Considering I do nothing important on the phone except take pictures that I normally back up myself, it's probably too much.

How did they go from $0.52 each month for 2 months to 2.10/month? I know I have not subscribed to anything in the last two months.

There are vampire uses of electricity, things we don't notice, and there are vampire suckers of money too.

I simply login with my google password, no 2FA etc, though I do have a phone number and address registered with them.

As you'd expect ...

You have to turn on POP3 within your gmail account on line, then jump through hoops to establish proper security with your device.

Aha. I didn't know about turning on Pop3. I'll look for that!