Tango, that's a good idea to get it set up for email notifications. I'll see if they will do that for me. Even though I cut the limit in half, I will still likely use less than a third of it every month. I don't spend much.
Lamb, that happened with me and a debit card. Someone got the information from a card reader at my usual gas station. They made a card, sold it, and my whole account was emptied. Whoever got it, spent up to $900 at a time, 3-4 times a day at Wal Mart. They went to about 5 restaurants in a day and spent upward of $1000 on the most expensive day, just at the restaurants. This was a long time ago, before financial institutions started being more sympathetic to this kind of issue, so I was on the hook for all purchases except those that could be proven when I was not even in the same province. In all, they stole about $35,000. They had purchased a cell phone and made prank calls to 911, too. Was quite the shock when I got phone calls and visits from police. Scary time for me... I was really fortunate that it was only my bank card, though, and not my social insurance number. That would have truly been a nightmare!
