The Anonymous Widower

Credit Card Fraud – After Death

As a complete afterthought to the previous post and not directly related, when my wfe died, I couldn’t find one of her credit cards and ended up at the security department of a major credit card company.  As it happened, she had probably cancelled the card as we could find no trace. 

But the guy I spoke to, gave me the fact that a lot of credit card fraud, involves creating new cards for people who have just died. The criminals would often use the notices in papers and then quickly create an ID.  Whether it would work now I don’t know.  But beware!

August 7, 2009 - Posted by AnonW | Finance | Credit Cards, Fraud