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Has your bank ever frozen your debit card?

Mine did. They suspected fraud and blocked the suspicious debit and froze my card. (They have specially modified freezers that contain credit card slots for this purpose, I imagine.)

I called them, incensed. It was true that bad people now have no access to my funds, but neither do I!

The only informatiom the first CSR gave me was Noble SSL, Italy. It rang no bells, but I know that debit and credit card charges often are made to different entities than the one I think I'm dealing with.

$44.25. Shrug. I told them I'd investigate and call back. If I DID owe someone $44.25, I didn't want to rip them off. A search of email receipts for online ourchases revealed no candidates, nor did further wracking of my brain.

I called back. The young woman looked for more information at my request.

The debit request was from Noble Air, an airline company in Bangladesh.

Thanks to invisible thieves in a far-off country I now have to wait 5-10 days for my new card.
SW-User
Yes. This just happened to me recently. I live in the states, but I’m a big fan of AFC Bournemouth in the Premier League. It’s easy to find Liverpool, Arsenal, Man. U., Man. City, and Chelsea gear over here, but if you follow one of the smaller clubs, there’s nothing. So, I ordered a bunch of gear through their team shop, and my bank declined the transaction and froze the card. I had to talk to someone in their fraud department to get them to allow the charge to go through. It was a pain, but I’d rather that than what could happen if they were too lax.
@SW-User Made me smile. When I was 26 a promotion gave me a company car and credit card. I did not have any credit cards, my parents didn't have any credit cards, nobody I knew well enough to ask about finances had credit cards.

It scared me to death. I felt like it was a venomous snake in my wallet and I wouldn't use it. I traveled a lot too and after about the third months of submitting pages of expense reports, my boss called me in and asked me about it. I fessed up I was skeered of it and he said, "Ya dope!" and 'splained it.

You can take the girl out of tbe country, but you can't take the country out of the girl. Not right off, anyway.
SW-User
I wasn’t scared of the card, but I definitely felt like I was walking around with a wheat stalk hanging out of my mouth until I got acclimated to large cities and travel. @Mamapolo2016
@SW-User Yup.

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Sadwithasmile · 22-25, M
I made this during maths today. I’m impressed
Sadwithasmile · 22-25, M
@MarmeeMarch I study at home. I stopped going to lectures because I study better from the lecture videos where I can pause the video, rewind and go to the bathroom.
I thought I made it up, but I just spelled it wrong.


Arithmophobia is the fear of numbers. Some people may just fear certain numbers, such as the number thirteen. The origin of the word arithmo is Greek (meaning number) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). Arithmophobia is considered to be a specific phobia, which is discussed on the home page.

@Mamapolo2016
St0ut · 51-55, M
Yeah that happened to me at a restaurant I always goto. I was highly embarrassed luckily I am close enough with them that I was able to tell them. Illl take care of this and they understood
katielass · F
I don't have a debit card. I guess that makes me a fossil but I just don't need one.
I'll take that as a 'no.'
@katielass
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
yea, someone used my debit card to purchase over $600 worth of stuff from china. The bank froze it and was able to put the money back into the account within hours, I guess the only thing you can do is just live on cash for awhile.
Mine did because they had the wrong phone number on file. The also had my wife's so they could have just called hers, but instead froze my account during a gas purchase.
Initiative is not popular in financial institutions.@PrivateHell
MellyMel22 · F
Yeah, someone was using a stack of copied credit/debit cards. I don’t even know how they got mine.
MellyMel22 · F
@Mamapolo2016 That’s true.. but these two guys were local.
Lovely fellows. @MellyMel22
MellyMel22 · F
Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M
Yes, when I was in South Africa. Man was that hard to straighten out from 12,000 miles away.
@Harmonium1923 I bet. Easier to move there.
FurryFace · 61-69, M
sometimes its just Bullshit to send you a new card , Internet Tactical Crap , ITC working for YOU
@FurryFace Well, I didn't want to share my card with Noble Air of Bangladesh forever and they probably weren't going to cut up theirs.
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