In article >,
Stan Horwitz > wrote:


> I had an Exxon gas card more than ten years ago that was lost and I
> didn't realize it until the next bill arrived. There were unauthorized
> transactions on it that caught my eye right away. There was a charge for
> gas that was for more than my car's tank can hold, in a town I never
> heard of a few hundred miles away in a different state at exactly the
> same time I was on board a cross country flight and I could prove it. I
> followed the card's procedure to report it stolen several months in a
> row, but each time, there were more unauthorized charges. I finally just
> sent a letter via certified mail to have the account closed, and I
> called, and that fixed it. My total cost, other than a few minutes of
> time and some postage stamps, was nil.

Sounds kind of stupid to me. Remind me not to get an Exxon credit card.
Why did they think that it would stop? I had credit card fraud. After
we had a discussion of the charges, the next thing the person on the
phone suggested was that I cancel the card and they would give me a new
one.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA