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jim_pI don't know if this can be made succinct enough for a Life's Little Victories panel, but that's what it feels like...
Went to the supermarket at around midnight on the way home from the Natick house. Went to the ATM first, got cash. When it came time to check out, I look for my ATM/debit card, to no avail. I pay by credit card, then go around retracing some of my steps, wondering if maybe in my bleary-eyed state I forgot to take the card from the ATM... finally after no luck I grumble my way out of the store... I'll have to call the store *and* the in-store bank, and I'll probably have to call the credit union and have them cancel the old card and issue me a new one...
...when I get home, there's a very thin FedEx envelope waiting for me, from an unfamiliar return address. Thin FedEx envelopes are often bad news... they tend to contain one-page terseley worded notices that basically say You're in Deep Shit[tm].
Except that this one contains an envelope from my credit union. (paraphrased): Your debit card was among a zillion others that have been compromised recently. As a courtesy, we have canceled your current debit card and issued you new ones (enclosed). Please activate and sign the card(s).
Which means I don't have to do a thing!
I wonder if in fact the ATM ate my card and in my haze I didn't even notice...
Went to the supermarket at around midnight on the way home from the Natick house. Went to the ATM first, got cash. When it came time to check out, I look for my ATM/debit card, to no avail. I pay by credit card, then go around retracing some of my steps, wondering if maybe in my bleary-eyed state I forgot to take the card from the ATM... finally after no luck I grumble my way out of the store... I'll have to call the store *and* the in-store bank, and I'll probably have to call the credit union and have them cancel the old card and issue me a new one...
...when I get home, there's a very thin FedEx envelope waiting for me, from an unfamiliar return address. Thin FedEx envelopes are often bad news... they tend to contain one-page terseley worded notices that basically say You're in Deep Shit[tm].
Except that this one contains an envelope from my credit union. (paraphrased): Your debit card was among a zillion others that have been compromised recently. As a courtesy, we have canceled your current debit card and issued you new ones (enclosed). Please activate and sign the card(s).
Which means I don't have to do a thing!
I wonder if in fact the ATM ate my card and in my haze I didn't even notice...
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