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Originally Posted by Noah930
Egg on my face. A $76 egg, no less.
I got a call from my costco credit card company yesterday. The fraud dept noticed some unusual activity. I had this same account compromised over the Christmas holidays, where someone racked up a couple hundred dollars worth of Uber charges. I don't even have an Uber account. So I had a new card sent out to me, and on purpose I've only used it at Costco since then.
But over the past 3 days, there had been about 15 small charges from Microsoft, for Xbox purchases. I didn't recognize the charges. I haven't made any Microsoft purchases recently. So I had the fraud dept contest the charges.
Turns out my 7-year-old has been playing an Xbox game. Last weekend Mrs. Noah allowed him to use a couple gift cards he had received to make in-game purchases. When those funds were exhausted, somehow Microsoft linked subsequent purchases to my Costco credit card. The weird part is that the card number on file was of an old, canceled card, and although it wasn't supposed to (feature turned off), the charges rolled over onto the new card. So I called back Visa this morning to tell them that I'm responsible for $76 of video game purchases.
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We had a similar situation but it was close to $200. Peanut knew he was busted and emptied all his savings to pay for it. Microsoft’s system for that is absolutely terrible, so I remove my card from the account after every purchase now. They recently switched us to an automatic billing without approval and won’t fix it. I absolutely hate their systems.
Apple has it figure out honestly. You setup a family group and enable “ask to purchase” foe the kids accounts. It sends a notification to my phone and I have to approve each one.