Got a call from my bank's fraud department the other day. Someone in New Zealand had tried to purchase something for the Garden City school...something that cost slightly north of two grand...along with other minor purchases; two dollars to an online dating site, one dollar to a place that only identified itself with a phone number. Going back through my account history revealed that the spurious charges started the day after making a monthly donation commitment to Your Spare Change. I also paid for a beautiful, affordable piece of jewelry as a gift to myself for spending 48 hours slogging through convoluted Microsoft documentation to prepare for a grueling certification exam, but I used PayPal for that transaction so...
Needless to say I had the fraud representative re-issue a check card and send me a claims form along with the complete list of suspect transactions.
There's a truth, lesson, or some other bleak, hard type of thing to take away from all this but I'm not going to think too hard on it or write about it here because doing so could destroy whatever tiny fragments of faith-in-humanity I have left. Instead I'm going try very hard to believe that Your Spare Change was not at fault (maybe they were hacked, maybe their transaction provider was hacked, maybe their IT person is overworked, underpaid and desperate to keep things going to the point where they made an inadvertent mistake when setting up their site) and I'm to go back to donate. But I'm going to look for a PayPal link there before I do.
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