Tuesday, July 17, 2007
You know it’s time to go on a diet when…
Shortly after we returned from our fabulous Vegas vacation, I noticed some charges on my debit card that weren’t from me. The story is long, which I’ll save for another post, but the short story is: although my card never left my possession, the information from it was stolen. So I reported it as such.
Needless to say, I’ve been on the cautious side of credit card info security since then, and although I got my new debit card days ago, I haven’t activated it. Now I regularly check my balance online and review recent debits to the account with more frequency – say, every day instead of every week.
Think this is tiresome? Maybe. But after hearing horror stories of identity theft and US Bank making the resolution of the issue so easy, I’m still a little gun-shy, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Tonight I logged in and noticed six debits from the account, all of which were completed yesterday. My heart was in my stomach again, fearing the worst and I was on the phone to US Bank before Daniel Baldwin could find his next line of coke. The customer service agent at USB confirmed they were charges that took place before my card was cancelled, but were not processed before I cancelled it. She verified the vendors:
Agent: Krispy Kreme?
Me: Uh…yup. That’s mine.
Agent: Pannekoeken Huis?
Me: Yeah. Me, too.
Agent: Burger King?
Me: Mmhm.
She read through the remaining charges, all of which were just as incriminating as the first three. Fast food, take out and a happy hour at Maynards.
Is it wrong that I feel dirty?
posted by paula
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