On Sunday 5/15/2022 at 3:32 am an account was fraudulently created and my debit card used twice on this platform. I have never used the service and directed by sendwyre.com customer service as the platform on record for the transaction. Here are the wallet order IDs of the transactions being disputed:
WO_FT4NWG7CAF
WO_7C97PM4VRA
I am working with my bank and law enforcement to resolve the issue and need your assistance to identify the user. I have never made a cryptocurrency-related purchase through Brave.com nor have I ever set up an account. If any additional transaction information is needed for a refund please let me know.
Has anyone had an opportunity to look at this for a refund? $400.00 for me is not a small amount of money. I really could use someone’s help reversing that charge. This is extremely frustrating.
I think someone stole your info and purchased crypto in Brave Wallet, you might want to change your passwords and any other authentication methods for logging into your bank accounts. Btw, you won’t be refunded.
Hi @EDR2022, thanks for writing in. I’m sorry that this happened. It sounds like someone got access to your CC and made this purchase. Unless I’m missing something, unfortunately I’m not sure there’s anything on our end that we can do or have access to that would helpful.
Have you canceled the CC and updated your passwords? To confirm, do you use Brave as a browser?
I have cancelled all cards. I never used your browser. I do not understand why nothing can be done if a user creates an account and purchases using your platform. The cc processor sendwyre was able to identify your platform being used (with all sorts of tracking info which I shared). You cannot identify a transaction on your own platform? Or the location where the user accessed the browser? Where did the crypto go and to whose wallet? This sounds like the basics. What can you do as a company to assist me?
@EDR2022,
I think there is a bit of confusion here.
First, Brave is a browser and does not require an “account”. If you do not use Brave as a browser, then that likely means that the thief uses Brave. In which case, what seems to have happened is that this person obtained your credit card info, and used it to purchase some ETH using the Wyre buy widget integrated in Brave Wallet.
Unlike services like Amazon (for example), Brave Wallet does not require any specific account/user info to setup — and even if it did, we wouldn’t store that data as privacy is part of our brand. Additionally, crypto transactions in and of themselves are anonymous and often hard to track even if we wanted to. Even if the transaction itself can be viewed on the blockchain, information on the person who made the transaction does not come along with it.
With that being said, you may be able to work something out with your credit card company (with respect to refunds) and Wyre as they should have safety measures in place for fraudulent transactions.
I am sorry that this happened and do apologize that there is not much we can do on our end to help.