Hearthly wrote:
Credit card companies are usually really good at detecting any sort of unusual activity on a card, I'm surprised the scammers managed to get away with so many transactions over a two month period. (Unless the scammers are doing some sort of super-sophisticated 'profile matching' to slip under the radar.)
They use different methods now, I had a £600 payment blocked from my current account and then had my access to online banking stopped. When I called my bank, they said that fraud in the amount of £600 was "trending" so I had been shut down simply because of the amount of money I was sending.
Then my friend at work paid extra to Barclay Card for some sort of enhanced fraud protection. At first, they just pissed him off by calling every time he bought something on Amazon.
Then they stopped doing that, a few weeks later he gets home and finds an invoice for a flight to Paris in the post, then the next day another invoice for a flight to Brazil. All were charged to his card so he looks on line and find its been maxed out to the tune of £14,000.
When he gets the details, he sees that thousands had been spend on Afro Caribbean hair extensions and eclectic guitars, oddly enough this never rang any alarm bells with Barclay Card!
Total pain in the arse when this happens, but your bank should sort things out quickly, more so when you can show you are out of the UK.