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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Regions bank told me that it is common after using my debit card overseas.
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'Overseas' where? When I make a card purchase with a US merchant, my local bank shuts off my card until I verify that it was indeed me who made the purchase. The banks here say that credit card theft is 'common after using the card overseas.'
I think we are both being given a ration of it by our banks. Credit card fraud and theft is rampant all over the world. It's just as bad in New York and Chicago as it is in Paris, Singapore, or Tokyo.
Japan sells very effective anti-skimming cards to carry in our wallets to guard against the hand-held readers used in many areas. The ones that work block the signal from the credit and 'smart' cards. Of course, this doesn't stop the miss-use of cards by merchants, or fake card readers attached to street-side ATMs.
Stitchawl