Submitted by Marvin Fineman (not verified) on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 10:45pm.
A way to avoid this scam: A growing number of credit cards offer a "one-use" credit card number that you can use to purchase from a merchant. If the merchant applies another charge to that number, it will be rejected by the credit card company. Get the number from your credit card's web site before you shop.
Fraudulent re-use of a credit card by merchants