C.C. Theft

So last night I just had to get out of the house. I have been cooped up all week with a sick baby and the confines of my home was the last place I wanted to be.

I decided Target was just the place for me so I went and browsed the clothing department to my little hearts content. Of all things I found a pair of crop pants that were pretty cute and were begging to be purchased by me. I go to the register and do the debt card swipy thing and I was DECLINED! Big "HMMMMM" escapes my lips (there was definitely enough money in our account for this purchase) and the cashier asks if I want to use another form of payment....no thank you, there is definitely something bigger going on here and those crop pants aren't worth my time anymore...interesting how quickly priorities can change.

As I am leaving the store I call Stevey tell him what happened and so he hopped on the computer to check out our banking info. I walk in the door just as he get our account information up and guess what we discover, four unauthorized purchases done just that day (the 23rd)!!! The first one was to Yahoo Wallet (a pay-pal type thing), christianmingle.com, Flowers, and GoTrust (a website that lets you surf below the tracking zone). We quickly cancel our cards and then have to wait until the morning to talk to the bank.

As the bank was reviewing our account this morning they noticed that on the 18th there was a probe into our account via itunes for a song that was never purchased. What that means is that whoever got our card info probed through itunes to see if we had money. Anyway, they are taking care of this mess and are crediting us back all of our stolen funds. I really hope we can find the source for this.....creepy huh. Thank goodness I went shopping too. Had I not, it may have been days before we noticed anything and by that time had a lot more damage done to our account.

NOTE: Yeah, I'm sure you have already put the whole stolen CC number and Christian Mingle and Flowers thing together...how ironic 'eh.