Yesterday it was my turn.
I got a call from BPD fraud department asking me about a payment of 2.88 USD "en un hotel en EEUU..." just now.
I said. No, se?or. Card cancelled. They will send a new one.
An hour later or so I get a message from BHD on my iphone alerting me of a payment of 1.25 USD at Residence Inn Hotel. Card cancelled.
Getting a new one.
Kudos to both banks! Others might not care because of the small amounts...
Trying to get to the root of where / how it could have happened I found out that the BPD card attempt happened at Stemmerman's Inn in Wilmington, NC. Quick Google search turns out that the Residence Inn is in Wilmington, NC too.
Questions that arose: Why such small amounts on the cards? Testing the waters? Do Dominicans work in both of these hotels? Then there might be a connection, but pretty far-fetched, or? Anyways, I will try to find out.
Thing is, the only place at where I did use both cards was online at aliexpress. So, who did it? The Chinese or Dominicans or somebody else....?
I got a call from BPD fraud department asking me about a payment of 2.88 USD "en un hotel en EEUU..." just now.
I said. No, se?or. Card cancelled. They will send a new one.
An hour later or so I get a message from BHD on my iphone alerting me of a payment of 1.25 USD at Residence Inn Hotel. Card cancelled.
Getting a new one.
Kudos to both banks! Others might not care because of the small amounts...
Trying to get to the root of where / how it could have happened I found out that the BPD card attempt happened at Stemmerman's Inn in Wilmington, NC. Quick Google search turns out that the Residence Inn is in Wilmington, NC too.
Questions that arose: Why such small amounts on the cards? Testing the waters? Do Dominicans work in both of these hotels? Then there might be a connection, but pretty far-fetched, or? Anyways, I will try to find out.
Thing is, the only place at where I did use both cards was online at aliexpress. So, who did it? The Chinese or Dominicans or somebody else....?