Another scam alert from a reader that’s worth sharing…

I’m “brave”, I make on-line payments, enjoying the instant gratification and feel it may be safer than post office mail. But a couple months ago, I was down to the wire, it was storming badly, so I telephoned my payment to the phone number on a credit card statement. A few weeks later I received a call from the “verification” Dept. asking if we had made a $1000. purchase, which we had NOT.

We were then transfered to the Fraud Investigation Dept. who explained that it looked suspicious, since soon followed our account being paid off, we had a healthy credit limit, and it was in the vicinity of where there had apparently been previous fraud purchases…