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| Thread ID: 74622 | 2006-11-29 11:53:00 | Ever heard of a nice shop called HBL 10 WELLIN? | george12 (7) | PC World Chat |
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| 502993 | 2006-11-30 00:01:00 | You buy things and you can't remember buying them????:horrified Call it a hundred+ transactions a month! - happens to me all the time too. An then the stores use arcane abbreviations to describe their eftpos and its easy to get this happening. |
teszeract (8723) | ||
| 502994 | 2006-11-30 04:03:00 | What's a bank statement? :stare: That list of money in and money out you see when you login to your online banking site. :thumbs: |
pctek (84) | ||
| 502995 | 2006-11-30 09:19:00 | Call it a hundred+ transactions a month! - happens to me all the time too. An then the stores use arcane abbreviations to describe their eftpos and its easy to get this happening. That would be exactly right. It's a real mystery. I'm just going to forget about it, but still..... |
george12 (7) | ||
| 502996 | 2006-11-30 09:41:00 | Take out a weekly allowance for cash. Easier to ID your eftpos's. | mark c (247) | ||
| 502997 | 2006-11-30 09:43:00 | You buy things and you can't remember buying them????:horrified Yes happens to me when you get your CC statement 6 weeks after purchase. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 502998 | 2006-11-30 23:59:00 | Take out a weekly allowance for cash. Easier to ID your eftpos's. Not a bad idea, or I could just not be lazy and record everything when it happens ... |
george12 (7) | ||
| 502999 | 2006-12-01 06:58:00 | A few years ago when I was working for a large organisation and had a company credit card, I noticed one month on the account there was a bill for $1.37 at 1 am on 26 June at a gas station in Mesa Verde (Colorado). But I was home in bed in ChCh at that time. I took it to the admin people and said there's something fishy here, but they dismissed as being not worth worrying about. Next month there was more than $4,000 charged to my credit card for rental cars, airfares and hotels all over Europe. And the next month there was more than $6,000 charged. By then the Visa fraud people had got onto it............ The lesson is: make sure you know what every charge on your credit card is, not matter how small. It could be someone who's stolen your number and is trying it out. |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 503000 | 2006-12-01 08:03:00 | A few years ago when I was working for a large organisation and had a company credit card, I noticed one month on the account there was a bill for $1.37 at 1 am on 26 June at a gas station in Mesa Verde (Colorado). But I was home in bed in ChCh at that time. I took it to the admin people and said there's something fishy here, but they dismissed as being not worth worrying about. Next month there was more than $4,000 charged to my credit card for rental cars, airfares and hotels all over Europe. And the next month there was more than $6,000 charged. By then the Visa fraud people had got onto it............ The lesson is: make sure you know what every charge on your credit card is, not matter how small. It could be someone who's stolen your number and is trying it out. Nice story, I'll remember that when I can get a CC :p. I would probably call the CC company if I got that, things just don't magically pop on there... Edit: Wouldn't it make sense to cancel the card as soon as you got that $4000 statement? Thus preventing the further $6000? Or do you get bi-monthly statements or something |
george12 (7) | ||
| 503001 | 2006-12-01 10:25:00 | Wouldn't it make sense to cancel the card as soon as you got that $4000 statement? Thus preventing the further $6000? Or do you get bi-monthly statements or something Of course. Don't you think we tried? But the bills come in about 6 weeks after the expenditure, so you're always a month or so behind. On hindsight, I should have insisted that my admin people did something about the original $1.37 charge and not let them just ignore it. And that's my point: you should check out everything on your credit card bill and attend to anything that is fishy. |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 503002 | 2006-12-01 21:49:00 | Of course. Don't you think we tried? But the bills come in about 6 weeks after the expenditure, so you're always a month or so behind. On hindsight, I should have insisted that my admin people did something about the original $1.37 charge and not let them just ignore it. And that's my point: you should check out everything on your credit card bill and attend to anything that is fishy. Sorry, that delay didn't occur to me, never having had a credit card yet :p. When I can get a CC I will always make sure I know every charge on it :) |
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