Today I woke up and checked our bank account from my phone, before my Husband left for work. He gets paid every week (I don't work right now), and we keep a pretty tight leash on our accounts, we monitor them frequently. Well he had gotten paid, but the account we paid our bills from was suspiciously low. So I looked at it and there are 3 charges we didn't make on there! 1 was from google checkout, and the other 2 from xbox live. We don't have kids yet, and we don't even own any type of gaming system!!! Nothing. We just don't play games....
So.......... I called our bank, they launched a claim and they are going to right it all... but the crazy thing is that it happened with my Husband's card and not mine. This is especially crazy because he shredded that card right in front of me several months ago, he was going through his walled and this particular card was old and had taken some abuse from being in his wallet, so he shredded it. He never requested a new one because this card is for our "bills" account and we don't use the debit cards for it--- we just pay our bills through the online banking, which is in the form of a check the bank sends to all our bill companies.
So we are really trying to figure out how in the world someone got THAT card number of all 8 bank cards we have collectively. The ONE that is shredded and has been for several months...
Another weird thing is they somehow put through charges to within $5 of our account being negative... and it happened between midnight and 8am this morning. They must have spent some time just trying to figure out how much they could get away with!!!
Stupid criminals. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! So beware, this can happen to anyone!
So.......... I called our bank, they launched a claim and they are going to right it all... but the crazy thing is that it happened with my Husband's card and not mine. This is especially crazy because he shredded that card right in front of me several months ago, he was going through his walled and this particular card was old and had taken some abuse from being in his wallet, so he shredded it. He never requested a new one because this card is for our "bills" account and we don't use the debit cards for it--- we just pay our bills through the online banking, which is in the form of a check the bank sends to all our bill companies.
So we are really trying to figure out how in the world someone got THAT card number of all 8 bank cards we have collectively. The ONE that is shredded and has been for several months...
Another weird thing is they somehow put through charges to within $5 of our account being negative... and it happened between midnight and 8am this morning. They must have spent some time just trying to figure out how much they could get away with!!!
Stupid criminals. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! So beware, this can happen to anyone!