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Back when I was 19-20 or so I spent a summer as a mountaineering guide in the France/Switzerland/Italy area. I called my CC company ahead of time to give them a heads up that they should not treat transactions from this area as suspicious. Since I was living primarily in tents and didn't have a cell phone, they had no easy way of getting in touch with me.
Then one night in town my card was declined at dinner. I called up the CC company and they told me that they had tried to contact me about some seemingly fraudulent charges and had shut off my CC just in case. When I asked about the fraudulent charges, they told me that someone in China had been making charges on my card. They then told me what some of the charges had been and I recognized them as purchases I had made... turns out their analyst or whoever had not figured out that CH was the country code for Switzerland. D'oh!
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Grant
In the stable: 1938 Buick Special model 41, 1963 Solex 2200, 1973 Vespa Primavera 125, 1974 Vespa Rally 200, 1986 VW Vanagon Syncro Westfalia, 1989 VW Doka Tristar, 1995 Toyota Land Cruiser, 2011 Pursuit 315 OS, 2022 Tesla Y
Gone but not forgotten: 1973 VW Beetle, 1989 Porsche 944, 2008 R56 Mini Cooper S
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