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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
It's unreal how quickly someone can get your CC info. I received a WestJet MC about 2 weeks before a trip to England in June. The only thing I did with it prior to leaving was changing over a bunch of auto payments for bills. Used it once on the actual WestJet flight to England and 2 days into the trip it stopped working. Looked online and there was a small charge somewhere really strange like a consulate in Louisiana and then a $300 charge for Canadas Wonderland (whatever that is) before RBC put the brakes on. Thankfully I had a 2nd CC with me or it would have been incredibly inconvenient.
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This has happened to me too. Once you cancel a card and apply for a new one, scammers have already figured out your next CC number as the algorithms used to generate these numbers follow a pattern.
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/samy-k...t-card-number/