When credit card fraud hits home

This is not how to start the day — taking a call from a bank security officer.

It’s never good news, as in my case in late January, when a security employee at my bank called the house asking about three credit card purchases. Purchases I supposedly had made earlier that morning at a grocery store in Brazil.

“Holy cow,” I blurted out over the phone. “It wasn’t me. I’ve never even been to Brazil.”

Count me among the more than 8 million victims of identity theft and fraud in this country. It is not a good feeling. Frustrating and feeling vulnerable are more like it.

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