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To: Smokin' Joe

Credit card companies fraud alerts don’t always make sense. My brother went to FLorida a few years back to work hurricane claims- he was there 8 months charging living expenses and paying off the balance every month when the credit card company decided some sort of fraud was going on and froze his card. When he called them they said his activities out of state had triggered a fraud alert- we really laughed about that- seems a crook could have used his card 8 months before the company would get excited.


28 posted on 05/12/2008 6:07:45 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Please Support and pray for our Troops, as they serve us every day.)
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To: Tammy8
Credit card companies fraud alerts don’t always make sense.

A few years ago, I had to drive 3,000 miles round trip between our properties about once a month, for over a year. Every time I stopped for fuel (same truck stops each time, no less) on each trip, I would have to go inside & call the CC company to verify my identity "because it didn't fit my profile. Same at motel desks. Got tiresome.

What was worse, was the weird one-offs that they DIDN'T question!

36 posted on 05/12/2008 10:34:00 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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