Originally Posted by
fastflyer
No -- any merchant can manually enter a valid AMEX and post a charge. I'm certainly not changing my number for 100 bucks in bogus Hertz charges. AMEX refunded all of them so far.
Perhaps if you (and others) dispute enough charges, Amex will wake up … don’t frequent chargebacks lead to increased merchant fees for all charges?
What seems unbelievable is that a "legitimate" company would think it acceptable to post a charge weeks after the original transaction. Two or three days, maybe. But anything past a week just stinks of scamster/ fraud.
Budget does the same thing.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/35545472-post34.html
One reason why it’s important to review credit card transactions, and ideally set alerts so you get notified of charges as they hit your account (because that’s generally the best point in time for me to identified unauthorized charges).