[dugarner]

Originally Posted by maureenreynolds

I strongly suggest you scan the important cards you carry in your wallet and if there is a # on the back you don't know automatically, write that down too on the scans.

Two years ago, I think at Disney World, someone lifted our debit card # and we saw all these charges later that summer---between $2 and $3.50---put on our card from various locations in Italy. Well, our bank is a local bank, they know us, they knew we weren't out of the country, so they called us to see what was going on. We put a security tag on our account and the bank refunded the money (it wound up only being about $40 before we caught it). Apparently that is a popular scam, because some credit card companies would see a large purchase (it was at a jewelry store) immediately and flag it. But handfuls of small purchases get through the system. We think that they were trying to buy a large item, around $500, and were having it rung up in small increments. Eventually the purchase did get flagged and the card was declined.

We don't have any credit cards, we use cash (cash or debit card) only. So now the security is set up so that if we try to use the card on more than two items under $5 in one day, it will decline and the bank will be notified. I have to call the bank to tell them to release it.

So when I buy at DD, it's usually between $2.79 and $6 or so at a time, and several times my card has been declined by the second or third purchase. Embarrassing!

What I'll do for scrapbooking supplies.