Introduction Well, it had been a long time since my last shutdown. I was going strong for a while there. So what happened? I went to make an online purchase this morning and my card got declined. I then logged onto the mobile app and everything looked fine. I had credit available. I then logged […]
Reader sent me this. I didn’t probe into why they were shutdown in the first place; let’s assume the usual culprits. Here’s his story: One phone call, two people. They specifically asked about the large repetitive purchases to OD, Staples, Kroger, Speedway, Ebay et al. They asked if I was buying gift cards and […]
I woke up this morning to the above email. WTF! At first I was confused if I was moving money FROM my Discover or moving money INTO my Discover card. Either way, I DID NOT make the balance transfer. I called up Discover and got routed to their security team who then credited me back […]
Some of you don’t follow me on Twitter, so I’ll make a post about this. I got this email yesterday, which I thought was a very good phishing email (see below.) When viewing on desktop, you can tell it’s clearly a phishing email due to the dwgwg3@hjmnsr.com email address. However, on your phone, it only […]
I woke up this morning to a fraud alert text by AMEX asking if I had used my card at a grocery store half way across town at 7:30AM or so. I responded NO and didn’t think much of it. Then my wife woke up shortly after and said she too got a fraud alert […]