Today, my day started in the middle of the night: there was a text message about suspicious activity on my Mastercard. And yes, they identified it correctly.
I use this card moderately and have very few scheduled payments on it, so I am surprised it got compromised. But I am getting more and more impress with how quickly any credit card fraud department can identify suspicious transactions.
I got a text at 2 AM, and email a couple of hours later. I promptly replied that these transactions are not mine, and they stopped the card immediately, issued me a new number immediately and shipped the new card.
Letting me know the new number is great, last time I had a compromised card, I had to wait for a new one to arrive physically. It took me just ten minutes to restore the normal order of events in my life. Just keeping telling everybody: online fraud is the best one, easiest to detect, and you won’t be charged anything extra
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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Sounds like you’ve got a good card and a good bank if they can notify you that quickly! Must make you feel better about the safety of your money and credit.
We’ve had the same happen too many times. One of the latest card frauds was my husbands and at the same time they were able to hijack his cell phone account. They were trying to order thousands of dollars of computer equipment and having both of these would allow them to use double verification for the purchase. He detested the card fraud first and used my phone to shut it down. It was close! That was very troubling that they could transfer his cell #.
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Sounds like you’ve got a good card and a good bank if they can notify you that quickly! Must make you feel better about the safety of your money and credit.
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We’ve had the same happen too many times. One of the latest card frauds was my husbands and at the same time they were able to hijack his cell phone account. They were trying to order thousands of dollars of computer equipment and having both of these would allow them to use double verification for the purchase. He detested the card fraud first and used my phone to shut it down. It was close! That was very troubling that they could transfer his cell #.
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Yep, I remember your cell phone story! For me, this time was virtually painless, and fortunately, my cell was not hijacked!
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