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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: My credit card is frozen--good opportunity
by
Keyser Soze
on 01/05/2014, 21:32:34 UTC
An unfortunate side effect of fraud prevention I guess. Some financial institutions have lower thresholds for "unusual activity" then others.

...  When I called to resolve the issue they said that "since I was not a woman" the transaction was flagged as suspicious.  ...

Do we really want companies scrutinizing our lives this much? How can that not give anyone the creeps?
Don't really have a choice if you want to use a debit or credit card. The issuing financial institution will monitor all of your activity closely in a effort to reduce fraud.