Date sent: Sun, 25 May 2008 16:48:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Me.
>
> Not that it helped them much, they got through two transactions before the
> credit card was blocked.
I've had my card data grabbed about half a dozen times over the years (although
one was simply proactive due to the TJX thing. One single purchase I made at
Winners!)
(One was memorable: we know the number was stolen from a gas station where I
made a gas purchase outside the hospital on the day Number One grandson was
born.)
> I travel so much and get so many unrelated credit issues such as blocking
> because I'm in a country I wasn't at yesterday that my card is closely
> watched.
Mine must be watched reasonably closely. I dunno how they do it, since my
purhases must be weirdly close to patternless. However, the last time it
happened,
they phoned me at home a day or two after the first false transaction, and
correctly identified which one was mine and which false on the same day.
> The funny thing is the card company called a phone I nearly never answer
> and asked for "Mr. or Mrs. Evron". Without waiting i said: "thanks, not
> interested" and hung up. They called back and for some reason I answered.
On that last call, being the professional paranoiac I am, I called the credit
card
company back to confirm that they had made the call ...
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