>>>The identify theft definitely concerns me. About two years ago I had my credit card info breached and had to get a new card, but this is much stranger.
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>>>Only once? You are lucky. When I had a Chase Credit Card, having my info breached was a regular occurrence - I think that I had to cancel the card at least 3 times. After I read that hackers tend to target Chase more than any other bank, I switched to a different bank's credit card. Three weeks after I got the card, the bank called to ask me if I had tried to purchase $10,000 worth of exercise equipment on the internet, which I definitely had not.
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>>>I have to admit that this new bank is pretty careful. Each time I make a large purchase that does not fit my spending pattenrs, they telephone me as soon as the purchase hits their system.
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>>I've got all mine setup so the instant a purchase happens i get alerts. So far I haven't ever been breached ..but it still comes in handy - for example last week I was getting charged $795 instead of $7.95 for a beer hahaha. I actually request new card numbers every year or so too.
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>I'd hate new numbers. My primary card has been replaced twice this year and each time, I have to go through a period of weeks before I have the new number memorized. PITA to have to look it up to make an online purchase.

Yep - and any auto-pay stuff you have to setup all over again too.

>Tamar
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>P.S. And in the ironic way of the world, while writing this message, my cell phone rang. It was a scam calling pretending to be the IRS. One way to know it was a scam (aside from the fact that the IRS doesn't call people and even if they did, they wouldn't use my cell, which I don't give out) is that the article was missing from in front of a few of the nouns in the recorded call. Typical mistake of a non-native speaker.

Actually the poor grammar might be an intentional part of the scam. If someone is dumb enough not to notice the bad grammar then it's a signal they might be dumb enough to fall for the scam. This reminds me of a company in Las Vegas that did some work for. They had a "script" that the people who answered the phones were supposed to read that told all about the wonder "product" they were selling (which was some b.s. buy'ers club type of thing...) ...it was my job to design the software for the script - if caller says X then read part Y - stuff like that. Anyway as I was reading though this "script" , I noticed a BUNCH of grammar problems and a lot of statements that seemed ambiguous. I pointed this out to my boss and asked if he wanted me to fix it - I mean it looked like a 3rd grader did it. My boss jumped up and said not to change ANY WORD of it - that they had worked with a team of lawyers to design a script that would keep them "legal". haha.