Life lesson - In case you're not aware
I'll relate my recent experience for those of you that are unaware of some "new" policy with credit cards. We made a recent trip from our home in the Dallas area to Carlsbad N.M. These transaction...
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Jesse_C wrote:
Why? The credit card company would not know me anymore than they would my wife. Anyone can claim to be someone else. The measures they took was more to protect them and me. She was trying to give them advance notice of our trip itinerary. I won't do business with any company that is that paranoid.
That's not true with my credit card companies. Every time I speak to them they want to know my Mother's maiden name, the name of the first pet I owned, the name of my 1st grade school teacher, where I was born, my high school mascot's name, last 4 of my S.S., etc, etc, etc. They don't want to know all of them but enough to know they are talking to me. In fact I had to do all this before they would talk to me on the phone during all this fiasco. I appreciate them being careful with my credit.
