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Credit card fraud

I logon to my credit card account this morning to make a payment and find 1300 quid of transactions I never made. £690 were unposted transactions, so I caught it on time. It's all been sorted out now, but still it's frustrating.

I had made an Internet purchase two days before the activity started, I'll not name and shame the company because I'm not sure it was them. It's a company I would not normally have trusted with my card, but it was a present and I needed to buy it.
I think it's interesting to see the tester amounts posted to oxfam before the bigger transactions. I think it's about time I started thinking a little more about security.

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You'd wonder that the card company wouldn't be able to spot these patterns and get on the ball quicker (or at all in this case) and give you a quick call to see if everything is as it should be. Just shows you they take so much of our money in interest they're not that bothered about fraud.

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