I screwed up at a pump on I80 last year by swiping one of those sneaky little diesel pumps which appear to part of the gas pump. I pressed cancel and pumped my gas. I believe I also did something irregular again on the same trip when a pump wouldn't work.
Well, I got a call from my bank ( or the card people, I guess ) while I was still on the road! They had called my wife at home and she gave them my cell number.
The lady started asking me stuff, but I didn't make the connection to the pump fumbles. Anyway, I told her it was me, and she just wanted to know if my trip would be over soon, and I said yeah, that day. It was only after thinking about it that I realized the gas pump connection. ( BTW, I've got hands-free Bluetooth, FWIW. )
Anyway, it actually gave me a warm fuzzy to know they were so on the ball, although I have had similar incidents in the past.
I had the same thing happen to me last week, put gas in a rental car using my debit card, picked up my car from the dealer and went to get gas a few miles down the road (yet another Chevron) and my debit wouldn’t go through. So I whipped out my credit card and got my gas, got back on the road, and not 5 minutes later I got a call from my bank. The first station I stopped at (Chevron) put a $125 hold on my card. The bank (BofA) cleared the hold, and told me if it happens again, just give them a call. They just want to make sure that the cardholder was making the purchases.
I think that this happens more frequently if you’re using a station that is off a major highway. I was off the 15 in Ontario/Fontana area. Lesson
learned.