This is a good title to start off this article, because I would share a situation that has happened and that could easily happen to anyone of us.
Always remember that you may be carrying the wrong credit card. Checking your credit card will save you future headaches. Check your wallet after you feel something suspicious.
The Person in this case, went to a gym and left all his personal belongings inside a locker, and took off to start his exercise routine.
First mistake: Always check for that locker to be locked up as for any thing else where you may have personal documents or valuable objects.
After this potential victim of thieves came back from burning calories, took a shower and prepared to put all his belongings back in place, but when doing so, he NOTICED that something was not in the the place he had left them.
So he did the right thing we all do, yes, check everything. Got his wallet and looked at it. Money was there, credit cards were in the same place, so he said, oh well, no problem, closed the wallet and put it on his pants pocket and headed out of the gym.
Second mistake: Did he actually take the credit card and check if it was HIS card? We never do this because we never think of the worst.
Then after some time, the Person receives his credit card statements, and guess what. He faints at the credit statement balance. In a hurry looks for the name and yes, it is his.
It just can't be, it just can't be he says, then all of a sudden he remembers the time at the gym, when he noticed something strange on his stuff in the locker. So he hurries to his wallet and searches again for any thing missing, but everything was there, but this times he decides to look BETTER.
And there was the problem, that credit card he thought it was his, had been changed for another one. He checked it in disbelief, but there was no mistake, the card wasn't on his name, it belonged to someone else.
Remember that when a card is used in small purchases, the quantity is not so big enough to call the attention of the cashier or the clerk.
Sadly the damage had been done already, and all that was left to do was to cancel it right away plus taking care of all the further problems that come with it. And of course, getting legal help to protect us from having to pay all that money lost, due to the mishandling of the credit card in the wrong hands.
Luckily, there are forms to be protected against all this type of fraud, but either for one reason or another, we never consider that could happen to us.
So remember, and this is for me too, always check twice whatever looks suspicious or strange.
There are many ways of how thieves operate this days, and it will get worst.
Remember, the more prepared you are to face this inconveniences in life, the better off we'll be.
It is a pleasure for me, to keep you aware that out there, are people looking after our hard earned money.
As always, God bless you all.
Jose joe Lasa.
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Blessings.
Jose Lasa
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