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TriJim	Woke this morning to find a half-dozen fraudulent charges on my primary credit card. Charges to homedepot.com from Georgia. Timing suggests the card information was stolen with a skimmer or at a restaurant over the last couple days. USAA bank closed the account and will be issuing a new card. Anniversary participants might want to monitor their credit card statements for the next couple weeks.
jwallis	Thanks for the heads up
WildCat	sorry you had an issue and good you were on top of it and notified the rest of the group. One reason I try to never use a credit card at restaurant Was good to meet you and hope we cross paths again Hope you hood stays up for many years to come! ------------------ Larry & Sue Mayes
MIKE GATLIN	Which restaurant do you suspect Jim?
TriJim	quote: Originally posted by MIKE GATLIN: Which restaurant do you suspect Jim? Hard to know for sure. Most likely skimmer in a gas pump since most of the fast food places in MI used chip which is harder to clone. I 'swiped' the card at 8 different gas stations over the trip. Possible other places (where card was swiped) include Dawson and Stevens in Grayling, Williams Café in Barryton, Mecosta County Park, and Pontiac Lake Rec Area.
ed monahan	Thanks for the heads up. I just checked mine, all is good except for the balance due, lol. THANKS
LSK	I have my credit and debit cards set up to email and text me if the charged amount is over $20. That way if my card is used at least I get a heads up that there is something going on. The text notification is almost instantaneous. I can use my card and by the time I put it back in my wallet, the text message has come in.
CJ	Very sorry to hear that.
TriJim	quote: Originally posted by LSK: I have my credit and debit cards set up to email and text me if the charged amount is over $20. That way if my card is used at least I get a heads up that there is something going on... In past cases, the bank was first to notice fraudulent charges, but this time the thieves processed 5 or 6 separate charges from $25 - $35 and flew under their radar. That is - the bank had not flagged the transactions as fraudulent until I called to notify them. Either way I am not held accountable for the fraudulent charges. I don't know if USAA bank offers the text service for individual transactions, but I have adopted two factor authentication when I call or sign-in to PayPal or my bank account.
BeWare	That sucks big time.
LSK	I got up this morning to 6 emails and text messages from Wells Fargo showing that a CVS Minute Clinic had tried 6 times to charge $35 to my debit card. Each try was refused because they could not come up with the correct card expiration date. Each try was spaced 32 minutes apart, beginning at 1:21 AM so some computer program had to have been running. I did go to the Minute Clinic about a month ago for a sinus infection and paid my deductible and the meds with my debit card. Wells Fargo shut the card down and are sending me a new one. Goes to show you just how easy this can happen. Glad I had the early warning.
ed monahan	I booked a flight from Rome to Miami recently, for next year and they turned down my card, for some reason. However the "insurance" that I purchased for that same flight went through, both times that I attempted to book it. I eventually used a different card and it went through. How did one charge get denied while the other went through? It showed on my Discover card for 5 or 6 days but then did go away without further problems. They claimed it didn't even show on my account at their end.
Greg and Veta	Week before we headed up to MI for the 20th event I got a robocall about my "over due credit card bill" from Citibank. I panicked wondering how I could have forgotten to pay a bill and then looked to see what card I had from Citibank. Turns out I do NOT have a Citi credit card. Someone had opened an account using my name and had charged up over $6000 on it in areas of FL I do not visit. I do get a lot of mailers from Citi offering to open a credit card but I just throw them out....without shredding them! BAD. Citi took care of it. I hope they catch those bastards. First day in Clare MI I got a call from American Express asking if I had just charged to my Amex business card for Apple itunes, or some such thing. Of course I had not and Amex seemed to suspect that and had denied it. They immediately closed the account and were sending me out a new card. Two totally unrelated cards. One personal and one business at different addresses. Scary.
padroo	I got an email alert from my Visa card while in Michigan saying I put $151.00 worth of gas in my Prowler. It was more like $15.00. Lol This message has been edited by padroo on 06-17-2017 at 08:03 AM