When using an ATM, cover your PIN number as you punch it in!
We live in a cash preferred society here. You can use credit cards in some establishments but they take eons to process, frequently are declined for no reason, or just don't work. So we have kept our bank in America and just use our ATM card......
...until it suddenly stops working!
Is it the machine or the card? You think OK I'll try again in a few days and it still doesn't work.
When your down to you last 50.00 it's time to call the bank and see what's going on.
Apparently some suspicious withdrawals in Great Britain to the tune of $6K are what's going on and our account is frozen.
We have not been to Great Britain in years but we have been to Budapest where we and some others from our trip improperly exposed our pin numbers when withdrawing cash and now are "paying" the consequences.
But get this, we have only one outstanding check in the mail and its on its way to church headquarters as we pay our tithing directly to them. There is just enough money left in the account to cover that check. How embarrassing would that be? Nobody wants to bounce a tithing check.
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