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Old 04-20-2013, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Mack184 View Post
You said you received notice by email. That should ring all kinds of alarm bells. Most banks will tell you that they NEVER notify by email due to all the possibilities of email fraud. You may wish to call your bank and speak to a human and make absolutely certain you're not being scammed.
That's the first thing we did. The email did not contain detailed account information. Interesting to me that email was their only choice of communicating the change/problem. Had we been traveling or in a situation where we did not check our emails, we wouldn't have known about the problem until we tried to use our charge card, which would have been declined. A telephone call in addition to the email would have been wise, IMHO.