Comments on: Fraud Alert: Did Someone Try to Use Our Credit Card?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:48:35 +0000

This has happened to us two times in the last year. Here in Tucson, thieves put card readers at gas station pumps, ATM machines, etc., which record the account number and PIN number. Both times the bank caught on before we did and we were reimbursed. It usually takes up to a week for a new card, however, which is inconvenient.

By: FrugalVibe

FrugalVibe — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:13:48 +0000

This has become more frequent as the criminals are getting more sophisticated. In Australia the federal police issued warnings to credit card holders to be alert to receiving calls from the credit card companies. They advised as you did One Frugal Girl to hang up and call the credit card company directly using the number on the back of the card. Also never letting your card out of your sight like Michelle Parker is great advice. Skimming devices are being used a lot here in Australia. Though the banks here have good investigation units that use sophisticated software to detect unauthorised transactions.

By: Michelle Parker

Michelle Parker — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:12:30 +0000

That's good that it was caught. Me and my BF have this happen to us ALL the time. Waitresses, waiters and so on keep on stealing our numbers, so now me and the BF are on a continuous cycle of cancelling our cards every MONTH just so that no one has our number. It gets very aggravating because it usually takes 1 to 2 weeks for the card to arrive. The banks and police don't know why it keeps happening. We've resorted to using cash more, but I don't like to carry cash around all of the time.

And I no longer let the waitress/waiter take the card out of my view. If I know it's a place where they have to take it, I will give them cash.