Another new debit card
@1creekgirl (42126)
United States
January 24, 2025 5:44pm CST
It's a good thing I check our bank account on line.
Yesterday I saw I had been charged $29.95 for a French tutoring course. My granddaughter loves the French language and French food, but I don't care for either.
My Credit Union is getting it straight, but of course I need a new debit card. Again.
I can understand someone in Walmart getting my number, but I've done nothing that relates to French lessons. There was even a small international transaction fee!
Oh, well, thank goodness it wasn't a huge amount and it's being taken off my account.
Do you ever have fraudulent charges on your debit or credit card?
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@moffittjc (122442)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Jan
I had that happen to me one time a few years back, and my bank was able to fix everything for me immediately and issue me a new debit card.
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@1creekgirl (42126)
• United States
25 Jan
That's what our Credit Union does, too.
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@moffittjc (122442)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Jan
@1creekgirl I rarely use my debit card these days, as I usually charge everything to my credit cards and then pay the balance off each month.
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@DaddyEvil (139751)
• United States
25 Jan
No, not yet. I hope it never happens to me.
I'm glad the Credit Union is fixing things for you.
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@GardenGerty (161788)
• United States
25 Jan
Only once. Bob is the one that checks the statements, and he had gotten a little lax. We had opened a second bank account at a credit union. Bob wanted to check the debit card and used it at a filling station. Evidently they had a skimmer on a pump or something because he got a recurring monthly charge. The credit union had us fill out paperwork and their fraud department took care of it and we were reimbursed.
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@snowy22315 (184224)
• United States
25 Jan
Its happened, but not often with my bank account I had a couple of fraudulent charges on Paypal. That was a total pain in the neck.FYI I blame Temu for those.
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@1creekgirl (42126)
• United States
25 Jan
I'm really leery of Temu after hearing things about it.
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@LeaPea2417 (37466)
• Toccoa, Georgia
25 Jan
Yes, once on my credit card was a charge for expensive clothes at a shop two hours away from where I live, a store I would never have shopped at. Thank goodness after reporting it, the charge was removed. I forget exactly, but I think it was over 100 dollars.
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@1creekgirl (42126)
• United States
25 Jan
That's good you got it straightened out.
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@1creekgirl (42126)
• United States
25 Jan
It's happened to us several times over the years, but we were always reimbursed.
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@AmbiePam (95536)
• United States
25 Jan
My credit card company caught a charge to Walmart that wasn’t mine. I was always at Walmart, but this Walmart visit took place in Arkansas, somewhere I haven’t been in ten years. I would never have looked past it being a Walmart charge, but my credit card company caught it. Saved me a little over 55 bucks.
I’m sorry you had to deal with that. My sister and brother-in-law recently had someone use their debit card at a Walgreens in Oklahoma City. It was the third time in two years.
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@1creekgirl (42126)
• United States
25 Jan
I hope they get reimbursed. We've had it happen to us through the years. It's good I check our online account...a couple of years ago some company kept changing their name, but it was always a $28 charge. Through lots of detective work, I found out it was the same thief. But it was a small enough charge that had slipped through three times without being a red flag.
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@id_peace (14298)
• Singapore
25 Jan
@1creekgirl indeed I am truly fortunate and that the banks in my country take serious view on that and educate everyone to call the bank immediately if we discover such transactions.
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@1creekgirl (42126)
• United States
25 Jan
That's good you haven't experienced that.
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@rakski (129830)
• Philippines
26 Jan
@1creekgirl the bank called me to confirm if the transaction was mine, when I told them it's not mine, they blocked my card and now I have a new one
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@1creekgirl (42126)
• United States
26 Jan
$29 seems to be a frequent fraudulent charge for some reason. Did you get your money back?
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@RasmaSandra (81962)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Jan
Luckily everything has been fine with debit card, I hope you get reimbursed for that charge.
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@1creekgirl (42126)
• United States
25 Jan
My Credit Union is good about getting my money back.
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