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posted by Jaitu at 20:57

I found out this evening that my credit card has been ripped off for the second time in six months. It seems I've bought goods from two opticians, the Carphone Warehouse and Vodafone and booked a trip with National Express. I should hope that amongst the data that will have been caught during these transactions is enough information to find whoever was behind them.
The thing that frustrates me most about this process is that the banks fraud prevention office get in touch fairly promptly to check on unusual spending patterns, stop your card, a new one is issued and that is the end of your involvement.
I want more.
I want them to get back in touch with me after a week or two and say "You know how your card got scammed a while back? Well it happened here." I mean it's happened twice now (and I count myself lucky that it's only been twice) and I don't know whether some information from the first time, had it been available to me, could have prevented it happening this time.
I'm not stupid with my cards. I don't let them out of my sight, I'm careful about the places I use them and websites that I buy from. So, I want to know how and where these transactions were made possible. I have other cards but this, naturally, was my primary one and I'll have to update any payment accounts with details of the new one when it arrives.
It's a great fat pain in the arse.
Still, the coach trip might take my mind off it. I hope I'm going somewhere nice.