Re: CC cancelled
Well that's a pretty fucked up way of doing things.
My European bank, if a transaction gets flagged the first thing they do is they pick up the phone and call you (who would have ever thought of it, eh?)
Only ever happened to me once, in the classical way: new guy at the car hire agency not knowing how to put a block on your card. Ten minutes later, I got a call from the bank, they explained that their system had flagged up a transaction and did I know anything about it. I told them yes, that was the car hire guy, they asked if they should let it through as a false positive, I said yes and that was it. I was abroad and this was outwith office hours so if they'd gone all out and cancelled the card without asking first I would have been less than pleased.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
