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It's a pain in the *ss when this happens. I had a credit card # stolen from a locked hotel safe. (It was overseas, I hadn't used the card on the trip, and the
by mathattack 13y ago
It's a pain in the *ss when this happens.
I had a credit card # stolen from a locked hotel safe. (It was overseas, I hadn't used the card on the trip, and there were charges to a sporting goods store down the street.)
If someone wants the #, they can get it. The nice thing is that the data analysis seems to be getting better and better. It gets caught very quickly nowadays (the current story being a poor counterexample) and it's been a few years since I had a false positive.
- jordanthoms 13y agoOn the other hand, Chase has false positive fraud alerts on my debit card 2-3 times a month.
- aroch 13y agoMy favorite, before online banking was like it is today, was the "please verify the last 10 (or 20) transactions" ordeal.
- jordanthoms 13y agoI still get this - they call with an automated system, give vague descriptions of the transactions which I can't actually recognise them from, then I go online and actually check the transactions.
- mathattack 13y agoI always assume that the inbound call is someone spamming...