Unauthorized Credit Card Transactions

Check if any of your family members have recently used your credit card to make an online payment.

Very often, family members of card owners have access to their credit cards.

Check if you are charged for an annual membership.

Memberships are often renewed automatically. Please check with your service provider for more information.

Check with the merchant whom you paid to for the billing descriptor

Track on your recent purchases and verify the items with the invoices provided to you. Invoices can be in a form of physical paper or digital invoices found in your emails.

Check if you are billed for a service with a different name.

There are some merchants who prefer to display the name of the item they offer rather than using the store’s name.

Example: Store of an online fashion store named “Flash Fashion” displayed as “cardigan / blouse / jeans” on your card statement.

There are merchants whose company’s name is displayed on bill instead of its store name.

There are some merchants whose company name is different from its store’s name.

Example: Company name “fashion store Pte Ltd” is displayed on your card statement whereas the store name is “Flash Fashion”.