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Some of the CC fraud prevention is a little overkill IMHO. My wife used to collect gasoline samples and ship them off to a company for analysis. This was just an on-the-side thing to do. If you're out and about and in no hurry, why not stop at a few gas stations along the way? The pay was quite good for this (assuming you could arrange the stations along a route you were already driving and didn't have to make separate trips).
Anyway, she'd stop at one gas station and buy a quart of gas (about 50 cents at the time). Then five minutes later she'd be buying another quart of gas down the street. Evidently this was highly suspicious to the CC company, because they would lock the CC on the third attempt to buy a quart. The deal with the company that processed these gas samples was they had to be paid for with a CC, and you had to include your receipts when you sent in the samples. Otherwise, cash would have been much preferable.
If I were the CC company seeing these transactions, I would be more inclined to write off the behavior as "stupid", but not necessarily "suspicious".
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