I think a lot of people, mainly older individuals, are victims of phishing / fraud. A lot of this seems to be via email, but I'm sure there are other common vectors as well. A lot of the time they don't even realize it has happened until it shows up on their statement, then they "got hacked".
On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > It seems to me the rate at which customers have to give us a new card > number because their card “got hacked” (i.e. fraud) is surprisingly high. > My own experience with both personal and business cards is this happens at > most every 10 years or so, and I do a lot of both in person and online card > transactions. Not too many though where I hand the card to someone. > > > > Is this common? Why does it happen so often to some people? Or is > something else going on and they aren’t telling me the real reason? > > > > I know some people use one-time cards and give us a different one every > month or two, but I think this is different. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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