Well as many people know last year I had my debit card copied and that was a huge fiasco! It was right before a long weekend and both Aaron and my debit cards had to be destroyed/replaced which isn't easy with banking hours and a full dayhome let me tell you! Whomever copied it spent my limit and then tried to withdraw the cash limit which flagged my account so CIBC froze everything. It sucked!
This morning Aaron discovered his credit card had charges on it which shouldn't have been there so he called Visa and sure enough his card's been duplicated, so once again, his card had to be destroyed and now he's Visa-less for a couple weeks until he gets a new one. The weird thing is that Aaron hasn't used his Visa in months so we're not sure how someone could have copied it?!
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If you find out how it got copied, can you let us know? It is hard to believe how things like that happen, when here it is sitting in your wallet the entire time. But it happens every day to someone, somewhere. Scarey. It is hard to know how to protect yourself.
Was the card ever used to order something online? or over the phone?
I have a friend that worked at a call center and in his database was the information for 25K+ credit cards at any given time. If he wanted to he could have had a printout and then did all the online ordering he could imagine before anyone found out.
Ordering online although seems very safe still depends on the people on the other side. I always try to ensure that the company is using SSL and has a valid verisign certificate before providing data.
But then again adding a card reader to a gas pump or recording the numbers is very easy too. I actually got an email this week about people using cell phones with Cameras to catch Creditcard data.
Technology advancements are nice but they suck too.
Later
Henry
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