quinn222

It's a good thing you went shopping on ITunes and caught this before it went any further. I had that happen to me one time when I was on that long Toronto-Montreal trip we all did. My car battery had died and I needed a tow and the guy said "sure, we take credit cards.." and then promptly skimmed the number. Luckily it was my smallest card with only a couple hundred dollar limit. Found out when I got home and tried to use it. Turns out he had bought about $150 worth of online pron.

As for my debit card, I track that religiously, at least 3-4 times a week, online. You can't be too careful these days.

It's a good thing iTunes caught the fraud. It's creepy not knowing who got the card number and used it.

Thank goodness you caught it when you did--although you're out of pocket at the moment. That is scary, indeed.

A couple years back, we returned from a weekend trip to Rome and discovered someone had taken a sizeable sum out of B's account--the withdrawal was done in Pakistan (or India, I forget which, now.) And clearly we hadn't been anywhere near the point of service, so to speak. It took some time getting things sorted with the bank. We still don't know who or how any of that occurred, but I'll always wonder if it was someone on the staff of the hotel where we stayed.

Sometime later, we also started receiving post and phonecalls in some guy's name--we'd never heard of. Whoever it was, he was getting chased by credit companies and banks. How and when he obtained our address and started using it to apply for accounts, we'll never know. All we could do was call these banks and tell them we'd never heard of the guy and no one by that name had ever lived here (we're only the second owners of this little house and we knew who we'd bought it from and they had bought it when built.)

How this stuff goes on I don't understand but it's frightening to realise your details, accounts, all sorts of things can be taken over by total strangers and it can wind up costing you dearly.

I've gotten plum paranoid with care since B's account was hacked. But I can only hope I'm doing enough and double check everything.

Yeah, that's happened to me. They spent £600+ in a couple of days. Mostly on group cinema tickets and fast food deliveries. Clearly living the high life ;D

Incidentally, they don't even need to write your card number down. They have these small machines - all they need to do is swipe your card through it and they get all your card info. I never, ever, let my card out of my sight. If I go to a restaurant, I always pay cash.

I must be more careful tracking my bank account as well. It's so easy for someone to copy the number. I use my debit card all the time.