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Question re Google fishpond

#1 Post by Beebs52 » Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:17 am

Anyone ever get a strange $50 charge from them on your credit card with no identifying purchase so you have to cancel your card and get a new one due to possible fraud?

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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#2 Post by silverscreenselect » Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:36 am

Beebs52 wrote:Anyone ever get a strange $50 charge from them on your credit card with no identifying purchase so you have to cancel your card and get a new one due to possible fraud?

Asking for moi.
Are you sure this isn't the monthly fee from one of the porn sites you joined for the 30-day free trial and then forgot to unsubscribe?
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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#3 Post by Beebs52 » Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:38 am

silverscreenselect wrote:
Beebs52 wrote:Anyone ever get a strange $50 charge from them on your credit card with no identifying purchase so you have to cancel your card and get a new one due to possible fraud?

Asking for moi.
Are you sure this isn't the monthly fee from one of the porn sites you joined for the 30-day free trial and then forgot to unsubscribe?
Dang! Silly me.
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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#4 Post by Ritterskoop » Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:14 pm

Sorry this happened to you.

I had someone try to use my card to buy hockey tickets, which the bank's algorithm rightly knew was not me, and they cancelled it. They overnighted the new card and I got it lesss than 24 hours after the text asking if this was me spending on the Las Vegas Golden Knights.

It was as painless as possible, though I guess it helps to have a goofy name that no one tries to steal, so this is the first time.
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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#5 Post by Beebs52 » Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:39 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:Sorry this happened to you.

I had someone try to use my card to buy hockey tickets, which the bank's algorithm rightly knew was not me, and they cancelled it. They overnighted the new card and I got it lesss than 24 hours after the text asking if this was me spending on the Las Vegas Golden Knights.

It was as painless as possible, though I guess it helps to have a goofy name that no one tries to steal, so this is the first time.
We've had cards compromised before but were notified. This was just weird.
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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#6 Post by BackInTex » Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:44 pm

Ritterskoop wrote:Sorry this happened to you.

I had someone try to use my card to buy hockey tickets, which the bank's algorithm rightly knew was not me, and they cancelled it. They overnighted the new card and I got it lesss than 24 hours after the text asking if this was me spending on the Las Vegas Golden Knights.

It was as painless as possible, though I guess it helps to have a goofy name that no one tries to steal, so this is the first time.
No algorithm needed. Any purchase of hockey tickets on my cards is fraud.
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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#7 Post by Ritterskoop » Mon Apr 29, 2019 6:58 pm

BackInTex wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:Sorry this happened to you.

I had someone try to use my card to buy hockey tickets, which the bank's algorithm rightly knew was not me, and they cancelled it. They overnighted the new card and I got it lesss than 24 hours after the text asking if this was me spending on the Las Vegas Golden Knights.

It was as painless as possible, though I guess it helps to have a goofy name that no one tries to steal, so this is the first time.
No algorithm needed. Any purchase of hockey tickets on my cards is fraud.
That's what I was trying to say on mine as well. I dislike hockey more than any sport. It's cold in there and I can't see the puck.
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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#8 Post by ghostjmf » Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:15 pm

I was rightly spotlighted as not having gone on a shopping spree in Atlanta (I live near Boston), but no way did Mastercard overnight the replacement. It took 3 days FedEx.

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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#9 Post by Beebs52 » Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:23 pm

ghostjmf wrote:I was rightly spotlighted as not having gone on a shopping spree in Atlanta (I live near Boston), but no way did Mastercard overnight the replacement. It took 3 days FedEx.
It will be 5 today for us. Reported Friday.
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Re: Question re Google fishpond

#10 Post by ghostjmf » Tue Apr 30, 2019 1:42 pm

I only got it as fast as I did by begging that it go UPS or FedEx & that the last leg *not* be USPS. Several items I've bought online have been given to USPS for the last leg, which would be OK as I paid for cheapest shipping, except several times they pulled the "couldn't deliver" trick when I was home & waiting for my new clothes, & I then had to spend hours on the phone trying to get a guarantee they'd try again. I *never* have set up "signature needed".

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