To the editor:

Don’t believe it can happen to you?   Don’t be so sure.  My wife and I recently stopped at Wendy’s in Columbus for lunch and presented a credit card, which was promptly scanned and rescanned to no avail.

Fortunately we had a second and different card!

Surprise, surprise – no good either.  Later at home the phone work began and soon found two charges of more than $100 at a Walgreens in San Francisco, Calif. And another charge of more than $100 and one that had been denied at a 7-Eleven. So much for card No. 1.

On to Ingnacio, Calif. where the thief decided to charge more than $300 at Toys R’ Us on the second card.

Fortunately both card issuers took prompt action; however our preventive action continues with phone calls, letters and emails.
Interesting that one of my calls to the USAA phone number listed on their statement advised me that I was to receive a free Carnival Cruise! Wonder which thief was going to pay for that?  Probably me.

Such a good deal that they are even on the Express Scripts phone number, so the ship should be filling fast.

– Hovey McClure