Especially required seeing that I had three fraudulent Amazon Prime subscription payments on my credit-card last week, two on which were on the same day.
My recommendation to all: Check your credit-card transactions for those small amounts of money that are the harbingers of your card getting cleaned out.
You could maybe use a 'scream test': If you find an unknown transaction, charge it back through your bank. The scream will come from a real seller, you'll most likely get silence from a fraudulent one.
Remember that real sellers have real costs associated with chargebacks. Typically they'll lose $20 for each chargeback, whether or not the transaction was fraudulent. The $20 pays the bank's time to investigate.
For a small grocery store that you purchased some $1 chips from, and you charged back because you didn't remember stopping off on the road there, thats a massive loss.
I recently cancelled my American one because the inflation price adjustment was way higher than prime is worth to me (more than two Costco memberships? No way!), process wasn’t too difficult, but maybe because I had a California billing address
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 33.7 ms ] threadDo they really need two "Remind me later" buttons?
What exactly will they remind you of? "You were half way through cancelling your prime subscription, do you want to finish the job?"
My recommendation to all: Check your credit-card transactions for those small amounts of money that are the harbingers of your card getting cleaned out.
You could maybe use a 'scream test': If you find an unknown transaction, charge it back through your bank. The scream will come from a real seller, you'll most likely get silence from a fraudulent one.
For a small grocery store that you purchased some $1 chips from, and you charged back because you didn't remember stopping off on the road there, thats a massive loss.