Saturday, March 2, 2024

Fraud

 I went to pay the credit card bill yesterday and saw that from James' credit card there was a charge for Spotify. He does have a spotify account but it is paid from a different credit card. Since we have previously had a fraudulent Spotify charge on the account I checked with him and he had not created a new spotify account. The charge was very recent (Feb 28) so I called the credit card company right away and cancelled his card. So he is without a card until the new one arrives. It is very odd that they try such small amounts as Spotify is only about $10 a month. I wonder if there is some weakness in spotify that allows bots to try different credit card combinations until one sticks and then when they find that one actually makes an account they would try for larger purchases later. Or is there someone out there who needs a lot of spotify accounts? It is very odd.

Last summer I followed all the instructions to activate James as a student on my insurance but apparently it didn't work as I tried to pick up some medicine for his toe and the system did not have him. So I had to call them and get that sorted out. Today, now that it is processed I need to contact them to get some retroactive things done.

And it has been a few years since we started with cogeco and their "deal" that I started with that they promised would never go up, has gone up quite a bit. So Bell came by and offered a better deal so I need to call cogeco to break up with them. This always causes some anxiety in the house as we have to change the passwords for everything and get new things set up but the overall savings should pay off in the end. In order to get the Bell deal we had to sign up for a home phone. Not sure what to do with that but apparently we'll have another phone soon!

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