Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
The main hassle with getting a real fraud alert is that they send you a card with a new number and you have to go through and change all your automatic pay accounts. The last time they helped with this by emailing me a list of those charges that looked to them to be regularly-timed ones.
My approach is that I asked for an authorized user card with my initials rather than first name. Since it has a different number, i can use this card for auto pay and not worry about having to change numbers if my walking around card is compromised.