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How Social Media Can Help You Stop Credit Card Fraud

stop credit card fraud with social mediaSocial Media has come a long way since the Internet was created.

So has credit card fraud.

And whenever I read about credit card fraud I immediately get bored.

It’s a topic I don’t enjoy reading because it has never happened to me in the first place.

Well that changed yesterday…

It All Started With An Unknown Payment On My Bank Statement

A few days ago, I checked my bank statement online and I couldn’t recognize a payment.

If it had been $1, or $2 or even $20 USD, I wouldn’t had been worried about it but it was more than that.

unknown payment

$1,010.09 MXN

I buy a lot of stuff online and I normally keep good track of what I’m buying but I was 100% sure that payment was NOT mine.

However I let it slip because the legend said “SPORT SEASONS” and I’m all up for sports.

I watch them, I used to bet on them and I practice a few of them (I’m a long distance runner).

So I thought… well maybe I did buy something after all and just can’t remember.

All of this happened as soon as I woke up so I went downstairs to prepare breakfast, took a shower afterwards and all that time I couldn’t stop thinking about that payment and I decided to do something about it.

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