#you snag my wallet and the moths that fly out start nibbling on the dollar bills in your wallet

[snailchimera]

You know how when somebody steals your debit card information, they'll sometimes make a series of very small purchases to check if your card works? Like $1-$5? Somebody did that to me this weekend and I had so little money in my account that they managed to overdraft it just doing that.

Fortunately I use a credit union that won't hit me with nightmare fees for a fraudulent overdraft, and I'm housing/food secure, so instead of this being a huge deal it's an exhausting but ultimately minor annoyance. I am also mildly entertained by the thought of whoever this was going to the effort of getting my card info only to buy a couple of songs/apps/gacha pulls or whatever on the apple store and immediately running out of money. Hope you got your my money's worth, buddy.

#Snail babble #credit card fraud #debit card fraud #I don't know how they got my info but I hope the cost was somehow greater than what they got out of it #you snag my wallet and the moths that fly out start nibbling on the dollar bills in your wallet #it's probably related to the hospital where I had a major surgery getting all their supposedly secure client information stolen #including HIPAA protected info #because of their incredibly careless data handling practices #there was a class action lawsuit over it but all I got out of it was free use of a credit score checking program #I've changed my card info since then but I had 0 cases of identity theft before that happened and I've had 3 since then #it's actually kind of terrifying if I think about it for too long #because there's a strong possibility the people who stole that info were specifically targeting trans patients