Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Credit Card fraud

I got hit by credit card fraud this week .

The Credit Union rang me to ask about a few transactions that had just been made on my credit card.  I said that I knew nothing about them, and they said that they were probably fraudulent.  It looks like they have a system for identifying suspicious transactions.  They immediately cancelled the card and issued me with a new one, but over the next few days about $2000 in transactions had been racked up from all over the world.

I don't know how they got my card number, perhaps they have a software program for working them out, or maybe there are people in shops or restaurants who copy the card details and sell them.  I just hope they can track the bastards down.  I never use this particular card over the internet, in case you were wondering.

Now I have the hassle of filling in paperwork to get the transactions reversed.


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