Originally Posted by
Critterlynn
Fraudulent charges. Once that happens, the likelihood of fraud alerts, and the need to call in to have them cleared, probably increases tenfold. I've had to call two different card issues a total is 4 times this year. Each call probably took 20 to 30 minutes.
That is some bad luck. I had my chase freedom hacked, and it took my like 5 minutes on the phone to get that one cancelled and a new one issued. Never had an issue with fraud alerts since then (and I have been using it a lot in restaurants this quarter).