credit card fraud

[CardiacCoug]

I'm no expert but be grateful it happened on a credit card as the process is much easier than with a debit card or checking account. I had a fraud experience once where someone was writing checks on my account. My bank caught the fraud on the first two checks that came through. They check every signature against the signature card (very unusual for a bank) and this is the reason that I remain a customer of theirs today even though they don't have a branch within 1,000 miles of my house.

Absolutely -- credit cards are easy to fix and you're never out any money.

That's the reason I would never use a debit card at a restaurant or anywhere else where I could use a credit card instead.

[Moliere]

Ugh. Had a note on the answering machine about possible credit card fraud. Turns out someone in Baltimore tried to use my card number to charge over $2000 at Ikea. (Ikea??? cheap particle board stuff???) And a couple of other fraudulent charges were on it, too. Glad they caught it, but now I have to get a new card, new number, etc. This happened about 10 years ago, too.

I'm no expert but be grateful it happened on a credit card as the process is much easier than with a debit card or checking account. I had a fraud experience once where someone was writing checks on my account. My bank caught the fraud on the first two checks that came through. They check every signature against the signature card (very unusual for a bank) and this is the reason that I remain a customer of theirs today even though they don't have a branch within 1,000 miles of my house.

[happyone]

That's happened to us as well, nothing so large though. We got the money back and new cards

[The Fourth Nephite]

Somebody rang up $10,000 bucks on our debit card at the Vancouver Olympics. We got it all back after a week, so all's well, but it worried us for a while.

[il Padrino Ute]

That sucks, mtnbiker. I just don't understand the mentality of those that feel they can do things like that.

[mtnbiker]

Ugh. Had a note on the answering machine about possible credit card fraud. Turns out someone in Baltimore tried to use my card number to charge over $2000 at Ikea. (Ikea??? cheap particle board stuff???) And a couple of other fraudulent charges were on it, too. Glad they caught it, but now I have to get a new card, new number, etc. This happened about 10 years ago, too.