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Not A Good Day.....
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:18 pm
by Sherry
Talk about a bad day!! 
Hubby has been in California on business this week, so we've been doing a lot of our personal business over the phone. To make a long story short, I called him today (he came back in town this morning and went straight into the office) for something and he checked our account online. Talk about getting a shock!! Someone had helped themselves and wiped out our checking and savings account!! 
To say the least I just about had a mild nervous breakdown, till my knight in shining armor took care of it. The bank said someone had used my husband’s debit card account number and PIN at an ATM in Ankara, Turkey, several times to remove our money.
It's so aggravating to know that someone just helps themselves to your money, but it is also so violating! Thankfully, all our money will be put back into our accounts by morning, but it's an eye opener at how vulnerable we are in this day of technology.
Yikes
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:22 pm
by Pastor Gary
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:24 pm
by one love
WOW, im thank the Lord it is ok. I was preparing to leave thursday night and go on friday morning and I looked at the account and the same thing we were cleaned out. Somehow our money and deposits were put in someone elses account
they fixed it thank the Lord but this is scary I wonder how many times this happens.
We were going to switch to Bank O Am. once so we put a little money in there and was going to transfer the rest later. Well a few months went by and we never even activated our pin numbers or debit cards , I just felt like checking that account and someone had bought plane tickets to texas on that account
They just fixed it and said it would be taken care of, no other info because they and I knew it was someone that had to have worked there because we had not even activated the cards......scary
Re: Yikes
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:28 pm
by Sherry
You're telling me!! Thankfully we caught it right after it happened! We just can't figure out how, where or when they got his information. Crooks are just to sophisticated nowadays. 
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:35 pm
by Tracy
Good grief. That is awful.
I'm glad it is being taken care of.
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:38 pm
by Shellie
A couple of weeks ago, we got a call from our Harley Visa card. They wanted to know if anyone had one of our cards to which we replied no. They were calling because our card had been used in Oldsmar, Florida, (by me) on the same day it was filling up a gas tank in New York.
I couldn't believe how quickly they were on the discrepancy. Anyway, they said that people are making their own cards now. They just slap down a random number and check it for a small 5 dollar or so purchase and if the number is good, they just use the card and then throw it away.
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:39 pm
by stevenson
We had that happen once and it was stressful. Thankfully, the Bank President and me went to college together and took care of my case personally. But it was still aggravating!
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:34 pm
by EagerBeaver
I had that happen once. Apparently my debit card was used at In N Out Burger in places all around California for a two month time period.
I hope the burgers were undercooked.
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 4:47 pm
by Sherry
Shellie wrote:A couple of weeks ago, we got a call from our Harley Visa card. They wanted to know if anyone had one of our cards to which we replied no. They were calling because our card had been used in Oldsmar, Florida, (by me) on the same day it was filling up a gas tank in New York.
I couldn't believe how quickly they were on the discrepancy. Anyway, they said that people are making their own cards now. They just slap down a random number and check it for a small 5 dollar or so purchase and if the number is good, they just use the card and then throw it away.
The bank did say that is what they did probably, made a card with his number and use it. Just not sure how they got his info.
What has us quite nervous, they had to do multiple withdrawals to get the money out of our account, so why didn't it send a red flag on our account and the bank alert us! 
Not real happy with our bank right now.