Ugh…this morning I had the very unfortunate experience of logging on to my PayPal account and seeing a charge I did not make. :( Not only do I almost never use my PayPal debit card I was positive I had NOT forgotten a shopping spree at Barnes and Noble.com two days ago.
The lovely people at B&N reversed the charges immediately and were able to tell me that whoever made the purchase used my name, billing address, and card# but entered a different, local shipping address. Grrr…it makes it even worse when it is someone local ya know? But of course that helped me remember that I had only ever given out that card # once and it was to a local person. I had ordered pizza over the phone for my tax lady around a week ago.
So mystery solved…the young gal at the pizza place most likely wrote down the card info and pocketed it…then used it a few days later. Now I have to spend a bunch of time tracking down info, cancelling my card, and filing police reports. AND this also made me remember that this exact thing happened one other time two years ago. I gave my card # out over the phone locally and within a week I had a fraudulent charge. I knew this town was economically depressed but this is nuts!
Anyway it is a nice reminder to be more careful with my check card info.
