Fraud Ahoy!

So on Friday, we went out for lunch to the Sherlock Holmes with mum , Mike and Belle, and tried to pay using the trusty visa card... no go.
We were off to the bank after that anyway, so I asked them about the card, and apparently they detected fraudulent attempts that don't fit with our normal pattern.. a couple of miniscule transactions with Netflix (definitely not us !!)

Anyway - they have blocked our card, so now every time we want to use it (about 4 or 5 times now) we have to ring them, to get it unblocked, then ring them again to reblock it.
It's frigging annoying. The only other option however, is to get a new card sent out - that would have totally fxxkd our ability to pay for our accommodation.. so we're sitting on it a few days and trying not to use it.

It's fucked. I'm glad they detected it and took the action they did, just, why couldn't it have happened before now !
And for the record.... we have no idea how this could have happened - we're very careful with where we use our card, and receipts and things like that. I know there's a big fraud going on with Mcdonalds card machines being swapped out, but we haven't used it at mcdonalds, and I never pull cash out at an atm, so that only leaves online.. but those transactions are few and far between.....


(this post has been backdated)