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An interesting Saturday

garn

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Got off of work last night, swung by the store and picked myself up some beer for the weekend. For whatever reason, my check card was denied, no big deal I thought, get the credit card out and away we go.

Went to go get a haircut this morning and once again, my check card was denied. Okay, this is getting interesting. So I get home to call my bank to find out what's going on. The bank reports that a hold has been placed on my account as some loser in Great Britian has attempted to use the numbers on my check card! FWIW, i've never been to Great Britian and neither has my wife.

Man, what a hassle to close out the existing checking account, open up a new one, etc. Thankfully, my bank is going to monitor outstanding checks and bill pays that I had already set up through the bank's website and do the necessary funds transfer so that everything clears.
 

Silver

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Good grief, isn't technology grand? Sorry to hear about your bad luck, hopefully the scammers didn't get anything that didn't belong to them.
 

Faster horses

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Wow. We just have no way of knowing what all is going on out there.

I heard of a situation similar to this. Good for you for checking
on it before it was a disaster.

And thanks for the reminder...to be careful...
 

garn

Well-known member
Silver said:
Good grief, isn't technology grand? Sorry to hear about your bad luck, hopefully the scammers didn't get anything that didn't belong to them.

The bank caught it soon enough and thankfully, we didn't lose any money.

What's hard is that we don't have access to our account right now and that's a massive pain in the rear. New checks and check cards are being processed, but since most places no longer accept checks, starter checks would do us no good. I've avoided using the credit card as much as possible, but the wife OTOH, is a different story :shock:
 
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