I Can Haz Fraud Nao?

[moonlettuce]

Well, I've just had to cut up my credit card.

beaniesheppard posted to sga_noticeboard noting that some people who bought tickets to Wolf's Meet The Hewlett's even next month have reported fraudulent activity on their cards.

Bugger, thinks I and off I pop to check online.

And, sure enough, over a hundred quid's worth of charges that aren't mine. Well, not unless I recently decided to install a phone line through an American provider, among other things.

I phone my credit card company, who were more than helpful. They cancelled the card and have flagged and removed the fraudulent charges from the account. So, luckily for me, this issue was pretty much fixed within 30 minutes of noticing it. I won't have a credit card for the next week or so, but since I only use it online that's really not a problem. And hey, at least it wasn't the debit card...

Anyone who bought tickets should check their statements to make sure they haven't been hit, as well.

For those who are interested, beaniesheppard's post on what's happened is here.

However, to look on the bright side, it's like I've just said to mandragora1: it's a bugger, but it could have been a lot worse.