wrote:
On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 11:24:40 AM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/8/2015 11:03 AM, amdx wrote:
On 12/8/2015 8:20 AM, John H. wrote:
So yesterday evening I get a call from my bank asking about my credit
card usage. Not
trusting the caller, I called the bank. Sure enough, my credit card
information had
been used at a Shell station in California for a $110 purchase. The
actual card was
still in my billfold, so somehow they got the number.

How? I don't know. But the card is cancelled. Right when I'm about to
order Christmas
presents. Pain in the ass. Luckily, the bank will get me a new card in
two days.

So...watch yourself.
--

Ban idiots, not guns!


When my daughter was off at college we had fraud on our card twice.
The first time about a Red Roof stay, $100 of stuff at a CVS and a
$200 steak dinner.
The second time, a bunch of around $50 charges of Apple tunes.
Replaced the card both times.
There seemed to be a lot of that happening around the college town,
but the fraudulent charges happened in a different city.

This fraud crap is costing all of us, in the way of higher cost goods.
I hope the new cards they are coming out with help contain fraud.

Mikek



I've been getting replacement cards with the new "chip" embedded in
them. So far though, I have not found any place that uses them yet.
They still swipe the magnetic strip.

I've used my chip at Lowes a couple of times. It may be more secure, but
it's slower and a bit of a PITA as compared to just swiping.


I like the chip cards. Overseas is all you use. Waiter brings a reader to
the table, and you never lose sig of the card. They should not be as slow
as they are here.