NW-Bound
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I particularly worry about my charge card accounts. Although I downloaded transactions of my AmEx card daily, I admit that I often do not look really close at them. It's my wife's job to verify the charges, and she has been doing that monthly.
So, out of the blue one day, an AmEx rep called me to ask about some suspicious activities. Two of them were Internet transactions, such as buying something from the iTunes store. I told the rep that I had not even visited that site. So, he took those off, canceled the card and sent me a new one.
I later looked at the downloaded transactions, and surely, these two were there, but being only a few bucks each, they did not affect the balance enough for me to spot right away. They could have been my wife's usage of the card too, as both our cards are with the same account.
The other day, I was surfing Zillow, and found out that I could claim ownership of my houses, so that a prankster could not enter some wrong info about my places. Paranoid? Well, they say it is not, if people are really out to get ya!
So, out of the blue one day, an AmEx rep called me to ask about some suspicious activities. Two of them were Internet transactions, such as buying something from the iTunes store. I told the rep that I had not even visited that site. So, he took those off, canceled the card and sent me a new one.
I later looked at the downloaded transactions, and surely, these two were there, but being only a few bucks each, they did not affect the balance enough for me to spot right away. They could have been my wife's usage of the card too, as both our cards are with the same account.
The other day, I was surfing Zillow, and found out that I could claim ownership of my houses, so that a prankster could not enter some wrong info about my places. Paranoid? Well, they say it is not, if people are really out to get ya!