On 7/30/2014 1:56 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 7/30/2014 2:47 PM, wrote:
>> I hope I don't tempt fate by saying I have never had any problems and
>> hold several credit cards, I am just sensible with them. If something
>> happens these days, like it did with you, the system pretty quickly
>> picks up on it not being your usual spending and checks. A friend did
>> not even know her card had been stolen, until the bank called her,
>> only about ten minutes after it had been stolen. The idiot was trying
>> to buy a stereo system, not her sort of expense.
>>
> I can happen even if you're careful.
> My husband's American Express card was cloned (we believe at a Costco
> gas pump), and used to buy massive amounts of fuel in Texas - on the
> same day that he bought his usual amount of gas at his usual place in
> NJ. It took months to get it sorted out.
I'm surprised. I thought American Express was better than that.
I had a problem with my Chase card, which THEY caught and the problem
with the Discover, which we caught, but both cards were cancelled
immediately and we were issued new numbers. The new cards came Fed EX
overnight. We never had to pay a single penny. I thought all credit
cards had fraud protection.
Only inconvenience was calling the few providers that were automatically
billed to the cards to give them the new numbers, but both banks had a
list of them from us and offered to continue putting them through for 10
months.
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From somewhere very deep in the heart of Texas