(Community Matters) This is strange. Almost three weeks ago, Chase phoned me that my credit card had been “compromised,” so they’d cancelled and reissued. The reissued card was delayed and never arrived. After Chicago, since it hadn’t arrived, they Fed Exed a new card, which I received on Friday. When I called to activate the card yesterday (I kept forgetting), I went through an unusually long vetting process, answering questions about previous addresses, employers, etc. I asked security what was up, they wouldn’t say. I asked them to explain what compromised the card, they couldn’t say, only that it must have been either 1) a merchant reported an employee stealing card numbers or 2) the police finding the card number.
Today, I went online to check if the card information had transferred as promised. No big surprise it didn’t (still not sure how to import, etc); however, the strangest thing: my address has been changed on my online profile. And, it is changed to c/o a dear friend, with their address. I called this friend to ask if any difficulties with their credit cards. Yep, they had an unexplained decline last week. The only connection we could find – that friend made contributions to Obama online and entered my name as the person responsible. Well, this doesn’t explain anything since they didn’t use my card number – except that, of course, I’d independently used my card to make online contributions.
Still figuring this out. Strange.
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