when was the last time you check your credit card statements? i haven’t done it for three months. upon detailed inspection today, i discovered at least 4 fraudulent charges totalling approximately $150.00 !!
i was curious of the merchants: CiC* Credit Monitoring and My Perfect Credit Inc. And they are all US companies as charges are in US Dollars. Googling those companies resulted in similar outcries from other credit card owners who have been ripped off!!
now, my credit card is cancelled. and i cant acces my bank accounts (this card connects to my bank accounts for atm and eftpos transactions too)…. i have to wait 5 working days before i get a new card.
not only that, i have to call all those companies who have set up direct charges on my card. iinet for example is very good at handling this. they helped me put off for 2 weeks all my pending charges until my new credit card arrives. others like the stupid Three, wouldnt even let me do that. Dont they realise that i have called them in good faith to let them know that my credit card details in the profile is no longer active? it appears that they prefer to have a declined transaction when they tried to charge my now-inactive-credit-card, and god knows what else happened after this trigger.
oh well… for now, im creditless… but those of you who have credit card, perhaps, its time to check and re-check those statements….. who knows, you will discover hidden treasure?? 