I recently received a letter from Egg – one of the credit cards I use, asking me to phone them regarding recent activity on my card. I called the number listed in the letter, and then got rather suspicious as the automated system started asking for personal credientials….so after checking on their website that it was the right number and not some dodgy letter trying to havest my login details, I called back and was pretty much put straight through to their security department.

There were about 5 fraudulent transactions on my account that had happened over the past week or so, totalling up to somewhere in the region of £2,000 – frightening how that can happen.

I’m still waiting for one of the larger transactions to be removed from my statement, but I’m fortunate that Egg noticed the change in spending pattern and notified me. The card’s now been cancelled and a new one to be issued – which is a pain informing the various companies that bill me on a monthly basis on that card, but at least there won’t be any more fraudulent transactions on it.

So I guess the point of this post is to say – check your credit card statements frequently!