Is "Payment to PIRATE SHIP * POSTAGE" fraud?

Written by Julian Sanchez

June 18th, 2024

Medium Risk

What is "**Payment to PIRATE SHIP * POSTAGE**"?

Pirate Ship, a shipping software company, was founded in 2014. The company offers services that facilitate the purchase and printing of shipping labels for small businesses and individuals. Pirate Ship collaborates with major carriers to provide discounted shipping rates. The primary products it provides are shipping labels for domestic and international shipments. The platform also offers features such as integration with various e-commerce platforms, address validation, and shipment tracking.

Payment: Type of transaction (payment)

PIRATE SHIP: Merchant or service provider name (Pirate Ship)

*: Separator indicating a subcategory or specific service

POSTAGE: Specific service or product (postage)

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.