A reader just got AMEX FR’ed and he let me share the story with you guys. He thinks it’s because he removed a card from Apple Pay! Now first off, I’m sure lots of people remove cards from AP, so that alone probably didn’t do anything. He also put 18K of BBP spend bringing the […]
This happened back in June, but I’m finally getting around to blogging about it. AMEX is usually pretty tolerant of cycling their CL’s and they’ll let you spend up to 2-3X of your CL before they start denying your charges. I had a Simplycash card that that a $5K CL. I got up to about […]
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 […]
This was the first time I’ve heard of a non-FR based axe from American Express. I can’t go into the details of the situation, but let’s just say that AMEX doesn’t like it when it receives personal checks not in your name or in any other unauthorized users’ names. If you’re doing this, I suggest […]
Introduction We all know to stay away from GCs when trying to meet min spend for the AMEX signup bonuses; however there is now 1 data point that shows they will not give you spending bonuses either. Here’s a reader’s exact quote: In October, I received a promotion on my biz SPG card offering 15k […]