I just off the phone with one of my credit card companies.  While paying my bill this month, I noticed a charge from Saturday to an equipment trading company for $101, and a charge of $40 (and then strangely, a credit in the same amount) from an equipment magazine company of some sort. Apparently, our credit card number got hijacked by a farmboy.  When I called in to dispute the charge, the fraud department was already anxious to speak to me, and asked me if I had done business with Comcast or some sort of Yahoo service recently. (No! We’re not even in the right area for Comcast, as far as I know.)  Those hadn’t been listed on my account transaction summary online yet. So, the card was canceled and a new one is on its way.  The unfortunate thing is that this is the credit card I used for almost everything I purchase online because I have it memorized.

So, no real harm done (we hope)  but if I hadn’t been paying attention, it would have cost us a lot of money and a huge headache.  So make sure you look over your statements every month!