Well, it happened. I’m now the a victim of credit card fraud. It seems my card has been cloned, and somebody was able to change my account details, and then attempted to make some large payments. They failed on the last step, as it was refused, which I’m pleased about. I’m a wee bit miffed and perplexed that they managed to access my account details and change all that, yet when it came to exchanging funds, they couldn’t.
Still, I phoned the bank and they very quickly sorted it. Basically cancelled the card, re-set everything, and added a few new things to sort it all out. Then again, it happens so often, they probably have it down to a fine art.
I’m just so annoyed it happened. I’m always so careful with my cards. I can only assume an employee of some retailer I’ve used that card with has copied the details, and then found out the rest of my info from public records. They’re probably UK-based, as the money was withdrawn in the UK as far as I know.
Now the electoral register is online, anybody can search for stuff. It’s annoying that in order to exercise my right to vote, I have to sign away my privacy. Or at least, I think that’s the case, so I’ll look into that too. It’s ironic. I shred EVERYTHING with my name and address on it, and am incredibly careful about where I use the card, and I’m the one that get’s had!
It’s just made me very paranoid about such things now. I suppose I’ll just have to tighten things up a bit.
Damn them.