I hope that's good, Gud.

Damn, Maria, glad you caught it! And sympathies to everyone caught in fraudulent plastic rectangle hell! I heard something on the news about a new, um, exploit doesn't seem right but I don't know what is - apparently there is code floating around that can harvest your card number and CVV off the website as you legitimately pay for something. The advice for how to guard against it was a big shrug. Sucks.

I need to figure something out for lunch. Which is basically, vending machine or go out and pick something up.

apparently there is code floating around that can harvest your card number and CVV off the website as you legitimately pay for something.

That has to be what happened to mine, because I never lost my physical card. In fact, I used it at Five Guys about 12 hours before the fraudulent charge popped up on my account.

The advice for how to guard against it was a big shrug.

Man, that is some kind of bullshit.

The advice for how to guard against it was a big shrug.

Everything I've learned about credit card fraud lately is that all of our credit card numbers are available online for not very much money, so we're all the aliens waiting for The Claw in Toy Story.

I know some banks will create virtual credit card numbers for one-time use shopping online, so even if some shady individual gets ahold of that number, it's useless to them. Sadly, it looks like my bank does create virtual credit card numbers...only for business accounts. Sheesh.

Steph - Capital One has a browser extension that you can add to Chrome to create/manage virtual credit card numbers. So far it has worked OK for me.

One of the things I do is use one credit card exclusively for online stuff and a different one for in-person. The idea is that they (probably) won't both be compromised at the same time so I will have some kind of plastic available.

We live in complicated times.

I went with a cold sandwich from the vending machine. So unsatisfying, but cheap.

Everything I've learned about credit card fraud lately is that all of our credit card numbers are available online for not very much money, so we're all the aliens waiting for The Claw in Toy Story.

Yep. Signed, working on e-commerce software made me super paranoid but I still do most of my shopping online.

It's a goddamn pain in the ass is what it is. I rarely used my debit card before, and now I'm going to use it even less. I'll collect points and cash back and pay it off at the end of the month.

(Yes, I do realize my good fortune and privilege in being able to say and do this.)

The registration bot flood is a common way of pulling off this scheme, so if any of you get hit with a bunch of registration emails for newsletters--some of which may be things you'd subscribe to in the first place--start monitoring your inbox and credit cards very closely. There's a fraudulent purchase coming. Took them about 10 hours from when they started bombing me to when they made the purchase.

Timelies all!

Looks like a quiet weekend here. Only thing scheduled is the birthday party for a friend's daughter tomorrow.

We finally have a quiet weekend too. I just have my two hour volunteer gig tomorrow morning and that's it. Hopefully we can do some clean up and food prep.