I opened my MasterCard credit card statement today and noticed 5 charges that were not mine. There were 4 identical charges of $100 each on the same day. I called MasterCard and they said that they called the phone number I had given them (my home phone) when the 4 charges first appeared. There was no answer because we were out of town. I changed the phone number in their records from my home phone to my cell phone. That way I can be notified if anything like this happens again.

MasterCard assured me that I will not be held liable for the charges. It appears that someone swiped the numbers on my c.c. and made a new plastic card; they used this new card to run up the bogus charges. I still had the c.c. in my wallet so I had no idea that the card had been compromised. It was not stolen!

This is the first time anything like this has happened to me.