Home / Credit Cards / What to Do When Your Credit Card is Stolen I was able to alert my credit card carrier and they removed the fraudulent charges from my account and sent me a new card right away.
Your liability is limited to $50 when your credit card is stolen, but you aren't liable for any charges if only your credit card number is stolen (assuming you report it immediately).
So I only carried my main credit card, a business credit card , and my debit card.
Unfortunately, that left me in a bind for a couple days and I had to use my debit card when I prefer using my credit card.
In general, credit cards offer better protections than debit cards and won't put you in a financial bind if your number is stolen.
If a credit card thief maxes out your credit card, you can't make any charges, but you won't lose any money if you report it right away.
Finally, I'd like to share my experience with Chase Bank The primary credit card I have used for the past several years is the Chase Freedom card I contacted Chase's fraud department at around 1 am on a Saturday morning, which is when I noticed the charges on my account.
I informed the rep which charges weren't mine and within a few minutes my old card was canceled, the credit bureaus were alerted that the card was canceled, and a new card was issued.
There is probably some truth to that statement Credit card companies will only make money when people use the cards, so they don't want their customers to fear using the cards.
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There was a $19.95 charge to something related to Yahoo, but it wasn't possible to tell exactly what service from the limited information on the credit card statement.
The situation was becoming more curious, so Tonya called the phone number on the credit card statement, and waited on hold for a while.
She immediately yelled for me to get on the phone, figuring that the whole situation was just going to generate snickers for the customer service people if they heard a wife calling to find out about a dating service charge on her husband's credit card.
Eventually we got them to tell us that the Yahoo Personals account did indeed have the same user name as my My Yahoo account (I immediately changed that account's password, just for good measure), but that the birth date listed with the Yahoo Personals account did not match either of our birth dates.
Cleaning Up from Cancellation - The Yahoo Personals customer service rep recommended that we cancel the credit card used, which we were already planning as the next call.
This time I waited until I could talk to a person, who promptly informed me that they had disabled our service because the monthly bill had been rejected by our credit card - apparently one auto-withdrawal had slipped past Tonya's record keeping.
Where Verizon Wireless didn't bother to inform us that they'd disabled our service and thus caused us unnecessary trouble, Google sent me a nice email message, informing me of the problem, telling me that they'd temporarily disabled our ads, and giving me a link to my account so I could enter a new credit card number.
legislation requires the three major credit reporting companies - Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion - to provide anyone who asked with a free credit report once every 12 months (so you can get one credit report from each company all at once, or you can request a report from one of the companies every four months to be on the lookout for problems).
Unfortunately, the credit reporting companies were given quite some time to roll out the service to the entire country, so although people in western and midwest states can request their free credit reports right now, people in the south must wait until 01-Jun-05, and those of us in the eastern states must wait until 01-Sep-05.
I don't believe that using a credit card on the Internet is any more or less likely to result in credit card number theft than using it over the phone or in person, but the more you use credit cards, the more likely it is some miscreant will obtain your number and abuse it.
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Last Thursday I got a call at work from FIA Services, the owners of the once-named Schwab 2% card (which I currently use as my ""all other"" card when I can't get a higher cash back rebate somewhere else.) It was from their fraud department.
I had received a couple calls like this in the past few years, but each time they were instigated by some unusual charging activity on my end (lots of charges in one day, high amounts of charging in one day, charges away from home, etc.) This time was different.
I called the credit card company and they said charges like this are very common when the number has been stolen.
This is the first time I've ever had a credit card number stolen (FYI, we had our cards, so it was simply the number that was stolen, not the physical card) - and I've been using cards for almost 30 years now.
The card provider reversed the charges (~$1000 total) immediately after I contacted them and sent us new cards.
I heard about this new card product called a Secure Identity Prepaid Card.
The fraudulent charges were on an old card number that was linked to the account, not the current card number, and they weren't approved.
There's also a major problem these days using American credit cards in Europe because their cards use an embedded chip and ours do not and are not likely to anytime soon.
After I lived there a short while, and had not used my US cards for over a month, two charges went to my Chase card - one for $5000 of expensive wine, and the other for $3000 of clothing.
I always prefer credit cards to debit cards for precisely this reason - if my bank account had been hit with $8K of phony charges I would have had many other issues.