Sunday, August 17, 2008
Public Service Announcement...
If you have any credit cards that you have online account access to, please, please, please turn on any sort of fraud alerts that are available. You should be able to have alerts e-mailed to you if any suspicious activity occurs. Tonight I discovered that my most often used credit card had been hijacked somewhere along the line and 2 charges totaling $1,402 were made last week. I tried to use it to buy groceries tonight and the charge was denied. I came home and immediately logged on to my account to find that my account was suspended. My card has been shut down and the charges will be erased but this has left me more than a bit shaken. If I'd had e-mail alerts turned on, then I could have known much sooner than tonight.
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I sign on every day to my credit card account and check the balance and look at the pending charges. Haven't seen anything like you've had yet, but yeah, that is scary. Hope you didn't starve....
of course not! : ) just like the average American, I have more than 1 credit card, 1 primary and 1 for emergencies.
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