Keep an eye on your debit card!

Everyone who knows me already knows what a paranoid freak I am when it comes to finances. I always keep a close eye on the checkbook and I thought I did on my debit card as well. I’m here to tell you that you can’t be too careful! Just this last Sunday Ralph and I went to Dillards to purchase new luggage because we have a ton of upcoming travel (including a trip overseas) and we both thought it was time we got new duds to travel with. When I got to the counter at Dillards to pay I was told that my card was not going through and that I needed to call my bank.

I FREAKED and it’s a good thing Ralph was driving because I just knew something bad had happened because I certainly had more than enough in the bank to pay for the luggage. To make a long story short someone had stolen my identity and was in the process of wire transferring money out of my account! Without going into detail, let’s just say they got me for a few GRAND! I’m just now getting it straightened out at my bank and their fraud investigation team in on the case!

This comes during a rash of bad luck we’ve been having as my computer systems have had multiple hacking attempts (thank goodness we have full back ups for everything and my husband is a computer genius) and we’ve only changed the locks at the studio at least three times in the past few months because someone keeps trying to get in! I guess you can’t trust anyone these days… My family just thought I was a paranoid freak before the debit card thing happened, now with the bank telling me that whoever got the card had to have had my pin number and possibly the 3 digits on the back of the card as well they haven’t seen paranoid yet!

BTW, complete security system is being installed at studio today! I’VE HAD ENOUGH ALREADY!

-Cindi K

~ by Cindi Kay on June 29, 2007.