Two or three weeks ago I got a fraud alert from the bank behind one of my Visa cards. Someone (not me) had attempted a purchase from Nike dot com in Oregon, for $98.10. I called to inform them that the charge was fraudulent, they cancelled the charge, cancelled that card number, and sent me a new card. The new card arrived about a week ago.
I used the new card for the first times Friday night and again on Saturday, to order replacement batteries for my computer UPSs. Opened my e-mail this morning to find a fraud notice from the bank -- another charge for $98.10 to Nike dot com in Oregon.
The young woman on the bank's fraud line told me about something I had never heard of. She said Visa has a "service" called Visa Updater, which is a "feature" under which when you get a replacement credit card they
automatically notify anyone you have made purchases from that you have a new number -- and they give them the new number.
What could possibly go wrong with that? Now that I know there is such a "service," I need to call the banks behind my other Visa cards to be sure that "service" isn't active on them.