call your financial institution immediately and stop these scum bags.

Worst here (USA). No email back. My order is on "quality control" for two weeks. They never responded to
my emails. When I contact them by phone the response is "tomorrow".

I am sorry to all that have been effected by this scam.  This is not me... My identity has been stolen.  I shut down Prestige Designs and disconected this 800 number some time ago.  Someone has picked up the info and is using it for a credit card scam.  It is being investigated by the proper authorities.
Again I am sorry and remember I to am a victim in this.  It is my good name these people are ruining.

it seems that i've been frauded by SMARTBUYGLASSES OPTICA KOWLOON - bought sunglasses from www.smartbuyglasses.com and paid with VISA on Jun 7 - still waiting them to be delivered :) (received 2 emails from them tho, saying that "your order has passed through our quality control check and has already been dispatched to your specified address")

So sorry you got hit for so much.  My bank did tell me that had I not caught it when I did, the original charges would have hard posted and then they would have come back and wiped out my account because the original charges were a fishing expedition to see if the account was checked regularly.  I check my account every day now.  My bank had already canceled my card, but the charges hard posted anyway - I called back and the bank said "they" were able to hack past their stop payment - that's serious hacking.  I did receive my money back.  I noticed one of the posts here indicated they contacted the Augusta Kentucky Police Department because they had found the person the number is connected to.  I am goinig to contact that PD today.  Perhaps more of us could call them and they could put a stop to it.  I am also going to contact my local PD as I have filed a police report.  I do hope you get your money back.

Hi, looks like a lot of people are being hit by this.  I did too.  On May 3, 2010 my debit card account was charged for $14.00, listed under ELECTRONIC/POS TRANS INB800 ACCESS FEE 800-546-4112 FL .  I called the number, and when it asked for the last 6 digits of my account, I entered them--I figured, they have the numbers anyway!  Big mistake, I now believe.  On May 6, 2010, the $14.00 was refunded to my account.  On May 15, there was a $.01 withdrawal from "IT'S WHAT IT IS" HOUSTON TXUS -- weird.  On May 17, there was a withdrawal of $746.91 by SMARTBUYGLASSES OPTICA KOWLOON HK.  Now this is getting serious.  My bank's fraud dept. called me and I told them it's fraud, they canceled my card and are sending me a new one.  I am working with my bank, Community Bank of VA., and hope to get the money back.

I also got hit for "access fees" from this 800 number - two charges, one for $14.00 and one for $1.00.  The charges were still pending when I discovered them and the bank intercepted them, however, two days later the charges "hard posted" and the money was again removed from my account - my bank returned the money to my account a second time.  The fraud unit told me the "stop payment" the bank had placed on the funds had been "hacked past" and was why the charges had hard posted.  I would like to know if anyone who was scammed has also had dealings with a company called Dermitage - I had a very disagreeable encounter with Dermitage, reported them to the BBB, etc. - that is the only online place I gave my check card number in the past year.  The other use of my card has all been for local stores where I have shopped for decades.  If you have had dealings with Dermitage just prior to being scammed, please post that info here - I'm very angry about whoever is ripping people off and I want to see if I can find them.  Thank you.

I'm from the West....  so I don't think this scam is geographically based.

I finally got my $18.00 back today.  :)  Happy me.  This whole thing is a pain.  I wonder if the scammer makes fleeces the people and the banks/credit unions are stuck paying back the people out of their fraud fund, or do they actually make the scammer return the money?  Ummmm...

I got zing today by this company, of no name. They charge my account $14.00 like the others.  The only thing the bank has is the phone number 800-546-4112.  I called Florida Attorney General and reported it since is a Florida account/bank.  Here the Florida Attorney General office number 1-866-966-7226.  Their website is http://myfloridalegal.com/contact and there is a form you can also fill out and fax back..  I have ask for the company name, and said I will file charges.  This is a ID Theft.
Now the stores, I remember that I have used this card at as a charge card at has been NAPA, Advanced Auto, Arby's, Lowes, Tuffy Muffler, Wal-Mart, China Buffet, Home Depot, Republic Waste Services, Publix, Winn-Dixie, KFC, Boats.net, and Wachovia bank at the ATM - any relationship to where you have used yours that has turned up getting this charge?  Figure if we put our heads together we can find the retailer that is part of this scam...

I noticed a $14.00 charge on my bank statement from these crooks.  It says:

ACCESS FEE 800-546-4112 FLDEBIT/ FOR CHECKCARD XXXX...

I do not recognize this charge and did not authorize it.  I called the 800 number and got a message that said to enter the last six of the card.  Then the message was that the charge had been credited.  Funny thing is that it was credited on the same day that I called.  Looks like it is a fraud that continues until the victim becomes aware then they credit the charge to avoid an investigation.

My illustrious bank Compass plays right along with the scam by saying they can't investigate since the charge has been credited.  They just want to cancel my card.  That's why this scam continues.  Our banks won't investigate!!!!!!

Find a bank other than Compass.

i got dinged for $14 yesterday, with the FL code.  i have none of the things Matt suggests.  monoprice?  amazon?  taxslayer?

i spoke with the augusta, ky police department - the guy who owns this phone number is there and runs a printing business called prestige design.  they said they'd talk to him...

Wow! There's a lot of us. Just noticed $14 on my card. What do we all have in common? Free Credit Report? Teachers Credit Union? Redbox? Comcast? That would be about it for me...

Same here - happened to my BankPlus Checking Account, entry on account was this:

05-03-2010       CKCD DEBIT 05/01 ACCESS FEE800-546-4112 FL   128838474   14.00  

Called bank was told it's fraud, all it took was someone getting my debit/credit card number.  More than likely a web site or something.  Cancelled the card as recommended by the bank. I was told I would have to come to the bank and complate a "charge dispute" form before BankPlus would investigate.

John

To Joe:  I am in NE & after the transaction it listed FL (which I did visit in February) but never used that card.  I notice now that other recent posts list NE as the state which it lasted after their transactions.

Did any of you go to San Francisco recently?
I just received this charge as well...the only way anyone got this card number was on my trip to SF...

Got the same thing as everyone else.  It's a real pain because of the legitimate pending charges on my card -- I have to wait for everything to post before complaining to the bank.  It's completely crazy how people get your numbers.

Ditto here!  I received a $14 Access Fee charge to my account with the same number with an NE after the number

POS DEBIT ACCESS FEE 800-546-4112 NE

Just noticed a pending charge on my bank acct for $14 by same number "ACCESS FEE 800-546-4112 NE". Haven't even used this card in weeks. Bank says they will try to resolve if the transaction finalizes.

Hey I got the same charge on my CC... I'm trying to narrow down how these people could've gotten my info.  does anyone who got charge live in Florida?

The exact same thing happened to me - may "Access Fee" was $18.  Call your bank & get your card cancelled ASAP.  Definitely fraud.

Got this charge showing with that phone number yesterday on my bank account statement, Access Fee, of $18.00.  I thought it was from my bank, but my bank told me it was a charge from a company to my account and "nothing can do about it" if I made the charge.  Problem is, neither my husband nor I did make a charge on this debit card for quite a while. My husband tried to call and a company recording replied without identifying and asked him to punch in the last six credit card number.  Huh?  What company does that without identifying itself????  He hung up without giving our information and I made a search on the internet, found your information about similar complaints about this same thing.  We printed the list of complaints up and returned to the bank.  The bank agreed to cancel our card, fill out a fraud report, and issued a new card.  The $18.00 charge will be credited back to our account soon

Be careful please!

I got the same thing today. WTF! Everything everyone said is true! Got an "Access Fee" of $14 with the same 800 number attached to the description on my bank statement. I called my bank, and they said they couldn't do anything until the charge posts; also I ordered a new card. I will definitely notify the authorities. To everyone: thanks for your posts, really helped to clear up this mystery charge!

Found a charge for a $14 access fee from this number on my online checking statement. Neither I nor my husband have ever heard of this business or received any phone calls, answered or otherwise.The website supposedly associated with the business does not exist either. I've called my bank twice. The first time they said there was nothing they could do since the charge was pending. The second I was told that my husband (who also knows nothing of this) has to call since the charge was made to his debit card number and not mine, regardless of the fact that my name is on the account and having made several mentions of the whole "This is obviously a fraudulent charge" part. Hopefully I can get through the red tape and get my money back. If you find this charge on your statement, call your bank immediately. You may have hoops to jump through...

Update:
I called this 800 546 4112  again today (4/26/2010) and discovered that they changed up the voicemail message.
"If you like to leave a voicemail message for box #...."

I got my $14 of my money back on Friday (4/23/2010) in addition to notifiying the proper authorities.

I had a $14.00 'access fee' on my checking account with this number. I've never heard of this place, or charged anything from them. I called the number, it said to press 1 if you didn't recognize the access fee charge, then asks you to enter the last digits of your check or debit card - which I of course did not. I called my bank immediately and they cancelled my debit card and told me to fill out a form declaring it was a fraudulent charge. Pretty sure it's some kind of scam though I don't know how they got my debit card number.

$15 access fee charged to my account - never heard of this company. Called phone number associated with it but got a phone tree  with no company name. It asked for the last digits of my check card.   Seems to a scam or fraud of some kind.

Happened here, too --  -have a $18 Access Fee charged to my credit card. No idea how this place found my number or anything at all! Called the phone number, same as above and same results - -asked for the last 6 digits of my CC#.


Sounds like serious fraud to me.

I tried to call and got the same scenerio. They charged me $15 "access fee".

On my statement, they didn't provide a merchant name only this number >> 800 - 546 - 4112. When I looked this number up, found a website for a company named "Prestige Designs" supposidly owned by a Michael Colemire of KY. I tried sending him an email and it got bounced back.

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

   MichaelColemire@PrestigeDesignsLLC.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
DNS Error: Domain name not found

do you know how they get the CC#'s?