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Old Sep 16, 2017 | 5:14 pm
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Originally Posted by mlin32
I happened to check my Chase Freedom card account today, and someone in the past few days did a cash advance with my card. Called Chase and they will reverse the charge and cash advance fee, and send a new card.

Then went onto the Equifax website, put in my info and got the message that I might have been impacted. Well, fairly obviously, I was.

"Oh what are the chances , won't impact me....." Whoops got that wrong.
Assuming the cash advance was at an ATM, the type of data that would have been stolen from Equifax wouldn't have been sufficient for that type of fraud.
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