[Leica] Credit Card Fraud

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Thanks for the input, Jayanand.  I thought I was being careful, as well.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Credit Card Fraud


> Jim,
> I get confirmatory phone calls/sms from all my card providers within 1-2
> minutes of the actual usage, if it is over a certain amount,  so that I 
> can
> promptly know if a fraud has occurred. If I use a credit card in
> Thailand/Malaysia/Indonesia (the credit card fraud capitals of the world),
> however trustworthy the shop/hotel, my card gets canceled and a new one
> issued, with a different number.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Just a heads-up.  I received a call this morning from the card service
>> agency that processes my Visa charges, asking me to review some recent
>> charges to establish their legitimacy.  They had noted a charge that 
>> raised
>> a flag, but I don't know how they detected it.
>>
>> It turns out that, over the weekend, someone got my card number and made 
>> a
>> fraudulent charge to the account, for the amount of $385.01.  I suspect 
>> it
>> resulted from my use of the card with internet merchants, though I also 
>> use
>> it around town.
>>
>> I have canceled the card and initiated actions to remove the charge from 
>> my
>> account.  This is my first encounter with this type of thing, though I 
>> knew
>> that it is not too uncommon.
>>
>> Keep an eye on those accounts!
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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