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Old 08-20-2014, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by kgentile1010 View Post
Of course I can't be sure, so this is just a maybe. I haven't used my credit card for a while. Went to tapas for lunch on Sat and on Sunday morning somebody used it to charge $300 worth of stuff on Walmart.com. My cc company rejected it and called us right away. I'm pretty consistent in how I use it, so the Walmart.com purchase was flagged.
From what we were told by our Visa and Mastercard companies (Citibank and Chase) in the experience I posted earlier, your card number being used was more likely "flagged" because of the far-away or international location of the internet service provider number of the computer being used.