I don’t often experience credit card fraud, but last week Chase asked me about a suspicious transaction on my Ink Preferred card and indeed it was an attempt at fraud. And today a JRC Shinkansen charge was deemed suspicious on my CSR card (and again Chase was right). So two of my travel cards now will be replaced, fortunately a few weeks before the next trip. A good reminder why it’s important to travel with plenty of credit cards.

Most of the recent charges on my CIP and my CSR were travel related charges, with Viator being the only common merchant, but the cards are both in my account profiles for various airlines/hotels. I had very few in person transactions (dining, etc) with either card in recent months as I shifted my spend for the most part away from UR cards.

Anyone else seen an uptick of card fraud?