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Falling victim tofraudof any kind can leave you feeling both vulnerable and violated.
Thats when she discovered her card had been used to rack up charges for the previous 3 weeks.
Luckily her credit card company had flagged the charges and canceled her card.
OP reported the fraud to the front desk, who were able to find the reservation by card number.
OP called her credit card company, who advised her to get thepoliceinvolved.
The police cuffed him, then brought out two other scammers loaded with luggage.
Thats when OP remembered that thered also been a charge for a storage unit in another city.
In herarticlefor Forbes, Jenn Underwood writes that data breaches and data leaksaccidentally exposing personal informationare on the rise.
Last year alone, U.S. data leaks and breaches impacted the personal information of 353 million people.
Bored Pandacaught up with OP to ask her what urged her to share her story with the Reddit community.
She said that she started lurking on Reddit after listening to a lot of narrated Reddit stories on YouTube.
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