Is "Debit Purchase -visa Card XXXXpaypal *facebookXXXX" fraud?

Written by Ethan Patel

June 18th, 2024

Medium Risk

What is "**Debit Purchase -visa Card XXXXpaypal *facebookXXXX**"?

Facebook Inc., established in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, is primarily a social media platform. Alongside its core product of the Facebook website and app, the company provides a variety of other products and services. These include Messenger, a messaging service; Instagram, a photo and video sharing platform; and WhatsApp, an instant messaging service. Additionally, Facebook has extended its product line to include the Oculus virtual reality platform and a range of hardware products, such as the Portal video calling devices.'

Debit Purchase: Transaction type indicating a purchase has been made with a debit card.

Visa Card XXXX: Indicates the Visa card used, with XXXX representing the last four digits of the card number.

Paypal: The payment processor used in the transaction.

*Facebook: The merchant or service (in this case, Facebook) associated with the transaction.

XXXXXXXXXXXXca: Unique transaction identifier and country code (ca) representing Canada.

Verify if this transaction is fraud in 30 seconds

Verify With Receipt

The best way to tell if this charge is fraudulent is to find the receipt. You may have an electronic copy of the receipt, which you can finding by searching in your email accounts for.

Or, if you want to automatically find and reconcile receipts so you never worry about fraud, you can use SimplyWise to automatically match all bank and credit card transactions to email and paper receipts. The app instantly reconciles your expenses and flags anything that doesn't match.

STEP 1

Connect your Email

Download the SimplyWise app and connect your email account. SimplyWise will search through your emails and find all the receipts in your inbox. This allows you to understand what exactly you are paying for when you see a bank transaction on your statement.

STEP 2

Connect Your Bank

Connect to your bank account/credit card transactions through the secure (256 bit encryption) Reconciliation feature within the app.

STEP 3

Reconcile

Reconcile the charges reported by your financial institution against what you've recorded in your SimplyWise account. Find fraud quickly! SimplyWise will match your transactions to your bank/credit card spending and check those items off.