Last night about 1230am received a fraud alert text from Citibank Costco Visa regarding a $4800 fraud alert. I verified with Citibank that it wasn't my charge and my account was locked right then with a new card in the mail today. City had denied the charge in any case.

Last week, the same thing occurred with my Bank of America Alaska Airlines Visa Card. Received a text and BOA had denied the charge. I called BOA and the account was locked, new card on its way. Charges taken care of.

That's two cards in two weeks.

Too many bad dudes in the world today. I had a Chase card compromised last month. My suspicion is that soon all cards will be chip cards and all merchants will be required to accept only chip cards and Apple Pay.

I got hit twice in 2 month's, I thought that was bad. I got careful after the first one and limited my info to one merchant, my plumbing supplier.

I'm pretty sure the gal I gave my info to for the company was the culprit. All of the sudden she is gone and all employees are tight lipped about why.

Ever since, things seem to be normal. I liked her, treated her with respect and look what it got me

Have you used the two cards in the same time period and location?

I'm just wondering if there is a connection.

The last time my credit card was hacked, I remember distinctly I stopped at a freeway gas station (Loves) and the credit card reader said error when I swiped my card. I moved to a different pump and it worked.

At home, I got an alert on two separate charges and they were in Utah while I was in Arizona.

Both were different cards, the charges were on the east coast. One card hacked last week, one card hacked this week. I wasn't traveling.

I'm really curious how this happened. I'm sure we'd all like to know so we can protect ourselves a little bit. A couple of things came to mind. I'm always getting some pretty convincing fake Emails that are just phishing attacks.

Two cards locked, that close together....Are your wireless connections secured?

seems to happen almost yearly for us

we look at the activity almost daily for this reason

modern reality i guess

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The more a card is used, the more likely it's exposed. It's a simple matter of frequency. There is an old anecdote about a sailor cruising the South Pacific and what he might pick up, vs the Chaplin's Assistant on the same ship.

A frequently used account with relatively large purchases eventually shows up online as a target. The humans interacting with it at various vendors can see and act on it - either employees or hackers. Businesses simply refuse to upgrade or improve their computer defenses. One hack went thru a sub contractors portal to grab the larger accounts database. Until it's a proven weakness the gamble is that no one will do it, and until they do, it's not getting profit thrown at it to fix what isn't broke. Nope, the owners want it all now. This is why cash registers had bells rung when you opened the drawer, and why clerks are required to count back the change to keep from cheating you. Still happens.

As inflation increases I expect to see a downturn. It will impact discretionary spending, and already has with the fixed income. When a pickup load of treated deck lumber worth $600 is cut in half, then cut in half AGAIN, you get to spending the same money in fewer transactions. We are already spending double on a tank of gas.

And I'm doubling my firewood backstock against next winter.

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Chaplin's Assistant

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Why is Charlie Chaplin on the ship?

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Originally posted by Tirod:
The more a card is used, the more likely it's exposed. It's a simple matter of frequency. There is an old anecdote about a sailor cruising the South Pacific and what he might pick up, vs the Chaplin's Assistant on the same ship.

I was a Chaplain's Assistant, more specifically the NCOIC of the Chaplain's Corps of my last duty station in the Army and I'm here to tell you that a sailor would be hard pressed to do wilder things than the Chaplain's Assistants do.

We preferred hiring those whose dog tags said None or No Preference for their religion as religion tended to get in the way of the job we had to do.