Dear Liz,

I am very sad to hear that you have experienced this kind of problem! It is certainly something unusual and I hope no one else has to deal with it.

If you don't mind, I would appreciate if you could share the hotel in question with us organizers in case someone else reports something similar later. You can send the info to me off-list (to john.andersson@wikimedia.se) and I will share the info with the a selected few team members.

Thanks, and we look forward welcoming you to Stockholm!

Best,

John Andersson Executive Director Wikimedia Sverige

Den sön 28 juli 2019 14:01 wikimania-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org skrev:

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1. WikiMania registration & fraudulent credit card use (Liz 99)

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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:12:00 -0700 From: Liz 99 liz99.wiki@gmail.com To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org, legal@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimania-l] WikiMania registration & fraudulent credit card use Message-ID: <CAKK411g4uA_F_5xvoQtWRAzmqs8= Qy9d2s66myVAR2qdH9Qq4Q@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hello, Wiki folks,

This is an unpleasant message to have to send. But, immediately after registering for WikiMania and booking a hotel room this week, the credit card I was using was fraudulently used for about a dozen purchases on Amazon. Small stuff really, each between $10 and $50. This was a credit card that had not been used before and that I was only using for purchases regarding this trip (conference registration, hotel and airplane ticket). I have never had this happen to me before with a credit card.

So, either someone associated with the Wikimania registration provider or with the hotel had access to my credit card data. I am also contacting the hotel where the registration was made in case the information was taken from that site. I should say that it isn't the Stockholm hotel associated with this conference but another one in a different city.

The credit card company refunded the cost for all of these purchases so I'm not out any money. And I am really looking forward to this trip! But I just wanted to alert WMF and encourage other conference goers to check their credit card statements in case there are any issues with the registration provider.

Thanks! And I look forward to seeing you all next month in Stockholm!

Liz