Thanks for the message board.  
Same thing..   The vendor used it to charge for a massage.

I had an unexpected charge of $246.02 from an individual I didn't know (or didn't think I did).  When I called the number on my credit card it gave a website: squareup.com/receipt where you can get the receipt for your charge.  It requires the amount, date of purchase, last four digits of your card and expiration date.  Sure enough, it came up with my receipt and I remembered what I'd done.  Good job.  Saved me some embarrassment.  My hairdresser would not have appreciated my refusal to pay!  :)

this number appeared on my credit card statement......and I don't know who this is.

Reading the responses here I realize that my purchase was at the Esplanade Cafe.

I just found this vendor charged my card $1800! That's not something I'd just forget about. Showed up on the card without the number,  called something like Leroyal. Had to call the bank to even get the number, they said it was classified under "unknown professional services." Had to dispute the transaction and cancel the card. Sad that people can get away with that kind of fraud.

was charged $2,700 false charges to this number877-417-4551

look up the address related to the charge - 901 Mission Street, Suite 201 - pick any city. BOGUS charge. They told me my card was swiped by one of their devices - I KNOW it was not! Call them, listen to the echo of the empty office. Something is not right here!

I did make a charge via a similar device - but the charge is completely BOGUS! The merchant pays a fee to their provider - which was not this company!!!

There was a charge $8.50 on my credit card. I do not know what it is.

It is a real transaction. Mine was Encore Events Inc. Anaheim. There is a phone number  with the charge so you could try calling that. If you keep your receipts then you can check out what you spent it on.

yeah, this was legit for me too, although i couldn't figure it out at first.  the $15 charge came up as "scott mcgovern scott middleburg" out of FL but i had no idea who these people are.  then the other posts made me think of a woodcraft vendor who used an iphone device to run the charge for a gift we got our son.  i looked up the date of when we were at that place and, sure enough, it was correct.  (the gift was a pretend "wand" from a medieval faire, if ya want to know!)  so all is well.  and no, i'm not a "shill", whatever that is!

similar story as many above. saw mysterious charge on my credit card, freaked out - it was a BIG charge to someone I didn't know. search for name and phone# turned up nothing but this site. realized it was a purchase I made at a silent auction. they used iPads to check people out with this software. legit charge.

I didn't recognize this name for the charge on my credit card as IMARKETING. out of CA.  I was looking at the date and then realized that I was in Gatlinburg, TN on vacation at the time of the charge.  So I am racking my brain trying to figure out what this company is.  And I thinking, what did I charge for $120.00.  Then it dawned on me that it was for the mountain ZIPLINE ride at $60.00 a pop for my two kids.  (They said it was great, by the way.)  It is supposedly the longest in the world.  Took 2 hours. But, nowhere did I see this name IMARKETING.  The man that charged my card used his radio/phone and attached a piece to it to where he can slide a charge card, so I never saw this other name.  But, this company has outlets all over the resort areas.   So, my mind is at ease now.  Unless I see more charges later b/c I have been home from vacation for 2 weeks. :-)

Same thing happened to me.  My wife thought I was downloading porn or something.  Turns out it was a comic book convention we went to in Albuquerque.  I remembered the charge as soon as I saw the name of the company in this post.  I'm a nerd so I googled this as soon as I got the emailed receipt from the show.  Very cool little gadget.  Cost per swipe seems a little high though at 2.75% per swipe.

Mine was for a taxi ride.  He also ran it through his I Phone.

Mine was completely legitamate too, although it took reading these posts to remember what it was for...My hairdresser scanned my card on her iphone...SO glad I saw this post, I was about to go postal!

For mine it was a legitimate charge from a taxi company whos driver used the iphone to charge me.

Cheers

This seems to be a taxi ride I took from known as Air Express Cab.  They are a great company.

At first I was concerned about this charge but after reading posts from several people, I remembered buying food from a vendor at the Patriot Ride on 6-18-11 - it was a National Guard member that was using their iphone to accept check/debit cards so people who did not have cash could purchase food.  It was definitely a legitimate charge and there were no additional fees.

This # charged my debit card $355!!!  not happy.

Same thing here..thanks for posting this so I didn't call my CC company and make a stink..Once i saw you guys discuss it dawned on me what my charge was for...a Hot Air Balloon ride...DUH...

Same situation here - I was perusing my Visa statement, and thought that this was a scam of some sort as the name of the company that showed up didn't return any results.  I kept thinking about it though, and the "company" was actually an art vendor at a local farmer's market where I bought my wife a necklace.  The vendor had a small attachment on her iPhone to swipe credit cards, so it turns out my charge was totally legit - though odd looking on my statement.

I found this thread because I was trying to figure out where a mysterious purchase on my debit card came from, but it was from a legitimate place... I bought a sandwich from a food cart. The guy had one of those plug-ins for the iPhone that he swiped the card through and processed it that way. It seemed to take longer than my debit card transactions usually do to post, so I had totally forgotten about it.

I was just bugging my bank about a small transaction from a merchant with this number, and I just remembered that it is actually legitimate.  It was from a mobile credit payment system when I got a BBQ sandwich at a music festival.  Just some mom and pop BBQ stand under a tent, and they must have been using "SquareUp" for their payments.  It looked like a giant walkie-talkie that could swipe credit cards.

Road, Joey and Boston Guy may be shills for this scam.

Thanks this was the case for me to but I did not remember.

I believe this is Square up  they are a credit card processor.

Received a call.

thank you! i believe you are correct.

Thanks! Now, I remember.