Bank of America Traces $3,500 Apple Pay Fraud to Unknown Dallas iPhone

1 articles · Updated · WZTV · Jul 14

Nearly $3,500 in disputed Apple Pay charges on Janki Patel’s account were tied by Bank of America to another iPhone based in Dallas, not the phone number linked to her device, her husband said.
The unauthorized purchases began March 18 with sub-$500 transactions at stores including Target, then escalated to a roughly $950 Lululemon charge on March 21 that triggered a banking alert.
Bank of America has denied the couple’s fraud claims three times, they said, even after repeated calls and a police report filed with Mt. Juliet police in early May.
Mt. Juliet police are investigating but say Apple Pay cases are difficult to prosecute, urging consumers to use credit cards rather than debit cards in digital wallets and avoid entering personal data on unidentified websites.