madmumof2
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2008
With 3 weeks to go, I've become a victim of credit card fraud!
I've saved so hard and loooooong for this, and I now only have $1000 on my fairfx card. It's been cancelled and they're going to look into it, and are transferring the money I have left onto another card for me so they've been great.
BUT it could take up to 45 days for them to contact the police and get paperwork etc to get the rest of the money back. So I doubt I'll have it back before I go.
Someone has used my card details in China somewhere on some website. I've contacted the website and told them about it so hopefully they'll refund me, but I'm not sure. I've contacted the police and they told me they can only do something if fairfx fails to. Fairfx said they can't see any reason why I won't get my money back and they've been fantastic, but it doesn't look like I'll get it back before I go.
Absolutely gutted. Anyone who reads my blog, or my posts on here even, knows how long I've been saving for this holiday, and how hard it's been, and now when it's this close, this happens. I always have my card in my pocket so it must have been cloned somewhere.
I don't really know what to do. I haven't got enough really to do what we planned to do, and only have 3 weeks to save up as much as possible.
I got my flight tickets the other day and was so excited thinking that's all the stresses over with, just the spending money to concentrate on. Now I'm in total panic mode wondering how the hell I'm going to have enough money for the 3 of us for 2 weeks.
I just want to curl up in a ball and wake up when it's all sorted.
I've saved so hard and loooooong for this, and I now only have $1000 on my fairfx card. It's been cancelled and they're going to look into it, and are transferring the money I have left onto another card for me so they've been great.
BUT it could take up to 45 days for them to contact the police and get paperwork etc to get the rest of the money back. So I doubt I'll have it back before I go.
Someone has used my card details in China somewhere on some website. I've contacted the website and told them about it so hopefully they'll refund me, but I'm not sure. I've contacted the police and they told me they can only do something if fairfx fails to. Fairfx said they can't see any reason why I won't get my money back and they've been fantastic, but it doesn't look like I'll get it back before I go.
Absolutely gutted. Anyone who reads my blog, or my posts on here even, knows how long I've been saving for this holiday, and how hard it's been, and now when it's this close, this happens. I always have my card in my pocket so it must have been cloned somewhere.
I don't really know what to do. I haven't got enough really to do what we planned to do, and only have 3 weeks to save up as much as possible.
I got my flight tickets the other day and was so excited thinking that's all the stresses over with, just the spending money to concentrate on. Now I'm in total panic mode wondering how the hell I'm going to have enough money for the 3 of us for 2 weeks.
I just want to curl up in a ball and wake up when it's all sorted.