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ABC123


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Stumbled out of bed with the mid week grocery list in hand today.

Get to the check out and "CARD CANCELLED SEE BANK"

Fortunately, they take credit as who carries cash anymore.

About 60% of the bank branches are closed now so there was no way I was going to stand in line outside at one of the few that are open in another town.

Called the bank line and entered my card number and to my surprise, right to "Loss Prevention Line"

They were expecting me biggrin !

So, due to COVID, we were able to work it all out over the phone.

22 Mexican Uber charges in 3 minutes.

Never been there, they tell me it's nice (Joel Walsh)

Looking back at my transactions, the only place I went unusual was the Dollar Store to quickly grab a electrical outlet 2 to six plug convertor for the shop.

Find this interesting because that store is under new "out of town" ownership as of August 1st.

It was 12 hours after that, I went for a joy ride in Mexico confuse

So my debit and on-line is shut down for now.

Not that bad, I have THE BANK OF WIFE and DAUGHTER CREDIT UNION to draw from.

I will get the $600.00+ money back from the bank but I think I will disable "Tap and pay"

Sad to say but this is becoming more common than the common cold any more.



-- Edited by ABC123 on Thursday 13th of August 2020 06:00:41 PM

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I had a similar, but different experience about six weeks ago.

I was trying to make an online/curbside pickup purchase with Princess Auto. All went well, until customer service called to inform me, the item was out of stock. OK. What now? "We'll have to cancel your order and refund your credit card." Fine. I waited 10 minutes and checked my accounts...

WTF! "Somebody" stroked my debit card six times in the previous two hours. I called immediately, the bank shut my accounts off and took my statement for the fraud squad. All worked out fine and I got my money back, but the mystery remains... how and where did "somebody" hack my debit card? I don't go many places, so I have to assume it's the all too convenient "tap" function which I never wanted from the beginning. My new debit card is not "tap" enabled. The lady at the bank actually gave me the choice, which tells me it's the problem I never asked for. 

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Knock on wood, i have never had any such issues in my life but my brother did. Over $2,000 in a spending spree, including a 55 inch TV that some scum sucker bought at my brothers expense. My brother can pin point it to a cheap down in the dumps gas station run by third world that he went to once. My brother was covered but after that he has been more careful about where he uses his cards. 



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cranks38 wrote:

I had a similar, but different experience about six weeks ago.

I was trying to make an online/curbside pickup purchase with Princess Auto. All went well, until customer service called to inform me, the item was out of stock. OK. What now? "We'll have to cancel your order and refund your credit card." Fine. I waited 10 minutes and checked my accounts...

WTF! "Somebody" stroked my debit card six times in the previous two hours. I called immediately, the bank shut my accounts off and took my statement for the fraud squad. All worked out fine and I got my money back, but the mystery remains... how and where did "somebody" hack my debit card? I don't go many places, so I have to assume it's the all too convenient "tap" function which I never wanted from the beginning. My new debit card is not "tap" enabled. The lady at the bank actually gave me the choice, which tells me it's the problem I never asked for. 

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 Yes, it's to do with the tap feature.  When I had a CIBC credit card, the one and only time I ever used tap I got charged for some airline tickets.  Someone intercepted our banking info.



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Happened to my wife last year. We had just gotten back from Jamaica and found out that there was $28,000.00 in charges on her credit card. We nearly S**t our pants! After speaking with the bank it was clearly fraud and they voided all the transactions. Since we were in Jamaica they agreed that the 6 round trip tickets from Toronto to Alaska wasnt any of our doing, or the $6000.00 in Go Train yearly passes werent ours either. They managed to rack up that much in 3 hours apparently before the flags were thrown and the account was halted. I carry cash everywhere with me now. Not worth the headache and stress if my account gets hacked.

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I find the credit card companies are getting much better on figuring out your method of shopping and are quick to find something suspicious. I travel a fair bit and have had to get new credit cards probably a half a dozen times over the last 15-20 years. Always has been good results with just the inconvenience of waiting a week until the new card comes. So in the last 2-3 years they have gotten in touch with me a couple times when there was suspicious activity and they were right each time. Years ago I would inform them if I was travelling to another country but I questioned them about that 5 years ago and they said not to worry, just do your thing. I just keep a couple extra cards in case of emergency but have been impressed how they have watched out for me.

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Something similar happened to us about 7 years ago in Nashville TN, and more recently, a few months back at home. In the Nashville incident, we discovered about 3 months after we got home that we had spent $3500.00 at  Lowe's store in the southern US (but not in Tennessee). The bank covered it, but even then it pointed out the emerging problem that only seems to have gotten much worse.



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