My, I've had a busy day. I knew the Kiwanis speaker, he is the worship leader at Carla's church in Shawnee. I didn't enjoy his talk though, I slipped out. He is a child abuse investigator, and as you know in Britain, no level of child abuse is acceptable, but in this country parents are allowed, to some extent, to hit their children, and he was detailing what is acceptable and what is not. So as I say, I slipped out, got a cup of coffee and watched the Tai Chi.
A bit later I went to Emmanuel for the discussion group, and four of us went to lunch at the nice restaurant/deli.
When I got home I was ready to take off my boot cast and elevate my foot. However I had just situated myself comfortably when I got a phone call from Visa Fraud. A bandit had hacked into my debit card from my local bank, and they were immediately suspicious. There were three fraudulent transactions. One of them, for $189 was for a parking fine in New York City, another was a shop in North Carolina, and I forget what they said the other was. When I confirmed they weren't mine they immediately stopped my card, and the transactions didn't go through to my account.
So much for my little rest. I had to put the cast back on and hot foot off to my bank to request a new card, and satisfy myself that the card hadn't been used locally, and nothing else was amiss in my account.
This is not the first time this has happened to me. On the last occasion I had bought some fuel from a local gas station, put the card into the pump (as you do) and it had been photographed (said gas station installed new pumps a few days later) so now I only use the same filling station which I think/hope is reliable, but the last time I filled up I had to use a different one, but then I noticed their pumps were brand new, so I don't know.
I must say I have tremendous admiration for Visa Fraud, they are certainly on the ball.
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