Watch those credit cards!

[storytimewithjoe]

Hi gang,

Shortly after our return from Palm Springs, I made the horrible discovery that both of my credit cards were missing from my wallet. Now, for those of you who don't know me well, let's just say that this is highly HIGHLY bizarre. I am, shall we say, on the anal-retentive side. Things don't just *disappear* with me. I don't leave things like my wallet unattended. Anyway, when I discovered them missing, I contacted the appropriate authorities, reported them as stolen, and got them to work on issuing replacements. Apparently, with both cards, somebody tried to use them, and the companies contacted us with what they believed to be fraudulent activity. Gulp!

Unfortunately, whoever the bastard is, he did manage to have SOME fun. I opened up one statement this morning and found over $2,000 of charges in Vegas. Luckily for me, these happened AFTER I reported the card missing. I need to report them on an affadavit, and that should get them struck from my statement. But still, it just weirds me out. If this could happen to me, it could happen to anybody. Please everyone, be VERY careful.

Comments

[citycraig.livejournal.com]

How did they get the cards??? Someone got mine two years ago when they broke into my car and got my wallet (and everything else) that I foolishly had stored in my car! But, I'm wondering how they got your cards from your wallet? That is VERY freaky. -Craig

[joeguppy.livejournal.com]

I really, really, REALLY wish I knew! I don't have a clue. The irony is that it only happened to me. I am constantly bitching at my husbear because he is terrible at forgotting his wallet, walking away, and losing it. Me, on the other hand, I am paranoid. I always know where it is, and if it isn't with me, it is stashed away. The only way somebody could have gotten those cards would have been to have lifted them on the last day I was on vacation by getting INTO OUR ROOM (which creeps me out), or by going through my wallet while it was locked in my locker at the gym (which also wigs me out). In any case, it shouldn't have been easy, but it apparently was.