
10-28-2020, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
The way to prevent this is to log in online and set up an alert for every transaction over a specified amount, like 5 dollars or so. Then, you will get an immediate email or text whenever a transaction is made on your credit card. Checking your account every day is not nearly often enough. You could easily miss 10 or 20 fraudulent charges that way. Also, there is basically no difference between a pending charge and a processed charge as far as the bank is concerned.
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Great idea.
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