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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.
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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 I agree. Next debit might have been bigger - and gone through. Financial embarrassment.
SW-User
A few months ago, someone in London was using my corporate card number and racked up about $8000 in charges, and they never stopped any of it. That ended up being a real pain. @Mamapolo2016
@SW-User Oh, wow. (Most of the wow is directed at my realization that if I had eight grand on my card, I'D rip me off.)
SW-User
Sometimes I travel internationally for work, so they’ve given me an insane maximum on that card. @Mamapolo2016
@SW-User Yet you keep going home. Whaddya, crazy?
@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.
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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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