fraud

There’s one thing you can do right away to decrease the chance of having your credit card number stolen. It’s so simple that we never think about it. Websites try…

When you use a credit card to pay for something, the cashier may sometimes ask you for ID to verify that you’re the cardholder. I’ve found this to be especially…

Back in the day, you had to let a credit card company know if you were planning to travel outside your normal patterns. If you were traveling across the country…

Have you ever had a bad experience with a company and then receive a survey asking you to share your thoughts? You know what I mean – if you’ve ever…

While scanning my inbox, I noticed an email from Chase. It mentioned something about a potential fraud alert on one of our accounts. It didn’t take long for me to…

If there’s one thing that’s universally accepted as “security theater,” it’s the requirement to sign a receipt when using a credit card. What was this supposed to do? I imagine…

Every once in awhile, I’ll see a meme on Facebook or Twitter and it just hits me so hard. You know the feeling, when it seems you’re 100% in sync…

It sounds like a plot of a bad movie. A woman was arrested in late April for scamming flight insurance companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in claims…

Hello travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV this week. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that we really liked and…

With the advent of COVID-19, purchases for leisure and business flights in the latter half of March were at an all-time low. Yet reports of credit card fraud for air…