We’ve had a busy past couple of days, and not in a good way.
My Guy was sitting with his phone the
other day, updating Amazon tv kinds of things. It seemed we needed to update
our information for the site, but when he got to the prompt that asked for bank
account and routing numbers, he quickly closed out. Phew!
Except I guess not quickly enough
because his credit card was invaded. He called that into the card’s fraud
people and canceled the card.
Then a second card was hacked. Closed
it. New cards in the mail. Fortunately, I usually travel with my LLBean credit
card, which I have never used in the many years I’ve had it. I only have the
account to order things now and then. I gave him that card until the other new
ones arrived.
He got up Thursday ready to leave for gym, but sat down to check accounts. Someone had accessed our back account and wired
a significant amount of money to be drawn to them. *!#!@!
All of Thursday was spent contacting,
first the bank (of course), and then the seemingly endless places that connect to
our back account, and canceling the payments due to be drawn from the old
account which would now bounce. You know, minor stuff like taxes and utilities.
Late at night, before all this crashed
down, he’d noticed an anomaly – someone had deposited 25 cents into our
checking and 39 cents into our savings. Hmm. We now know that opened a pathway
for the fraudsters and proved it was an active account.
Three days later, we have a shiny new
bank account (the old one was 50+ years old), leaving the old one available
only for deposits so that his pension and Social Security payments can still arrive.
And today we hope to finish a complete
glossary of who we pay to and how the money gets there. Silver lining?
Oh, Lord. What a nightmare. I'm so sorry you've gone through all that.
ReplyDeleteWell, on the upside, we're now super-duper financially organized.
DeleteAaargh. The hackers are very, very clever indeed. I hope that you recover the monies stolen.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, we did! I don't know what bothered me more - the potential of losing that money or the fact that the bad guys would profit.
DeleteWow, scary. Glad you caught it quickly.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought I was the only one with a regularly hacked credit card.
ReplyDeleteThat's a stressful experience to go through. It seems that we just can't be too careful.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry this happened to you, but glad you got it all sorted.
ReplyDeleteI had a couple of unusual charges to my credit card a while back, and called the bank and canceled the card. Got a new one but yes, I had to go through that mess of trying to find out who all I paid through that card. So far we seem to be okay now. Sorry this happened to you!
ReplyDeleteSad that some people see nothing wrong with that type of behavior.
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