Doing Things Differently

So, I was out playing pool at one of my favourite places in town, and since they don’t have Interac, I tried to put our charges onto my Visa.  Well, it turns out, somebody else had already maxed my card so the payment was declined.

So, I called my friends at Visa and we went over the charges I could see on the web, and the ones I couldn’t.  All the charges I could see, were correct, but there was $600 worth of charges I could not see, and over $500 of that was done by someone that was not me.

Needless to say, we then had to verify that I truly did not make the charges and that they truly were fraudulent.

Then comes the really bad part, in order to stop further charges, my Visa had to be cancelled and I have to call everyone that automatically debits from my Visa to tell them there will be a new number.  For most people, the list is small.  But, I am not most people, and I now need to make a few dozen phone calls.

I’ll give you all an update when I have more information.  For now, how my card was compromised and apparently duplicated is beyond me.