12-17-2014, 12:00 AM
Update: A Happy ending, two new cards arrived 8/20. When I activated both I was charged $5.95, but a quick phone call got the two $5.95 activation charges reversed.
I hadn’t planned on back to back cautionary tales, but the luck of the draw has me writing this post today. A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how variable load Mastercards were being sold for a discount at some Safeway branded stores. In addition I mentioned that these cards were earning Fuel rewards. As a test for that post I bought two Mastercards at my local Vons, and detailed this purchase in the above post.
Yesterday I went to liquidate the exact two cards I bought as test cards. I called to set the PIN, and was told that my balance was $207 on each card. This struck me as very odd, so I logged in online and saw that the card had been used yesterday morning:
http://milenomics.com/2014/06/us-bank-m ... ds-hacked/
your richer then you think!!
I hadn’t planned on back to back cautionary tales, but the luck of the draw has me writing this post today. A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how variable load Mastercards were being sold for a discount at some Safeway branded stores. In addition I mentioned that these cards were earning Fuel rewards. As a test for that post I bought two Mastercards at my local Vons, and detailed this purchase in the above post.
Yesterday I went to liquidate the exact two cards I bought as test cards. I called to set the PIN, and was told that my balance was $207 on each card. This struck me as very odd, so I logged in online and saw that the card had been used yesterday morning:
http://milenomics.com/2014/06/us-bank-m ... ds-hacked/
your richer then you think!!