I tried to make a credit card purchase from a website whose business is located in England. The transaction went through though the next day the business emailed me to let me know that my credit card company declined the transaction.
My credit card was marked as stolen/incident of fraud and the credit card was cancelled by the credit card company.
Because terrorist/Russian hackers/Darth Vader.
Now I am waiting 7-10 days to get a new card. I tried the same transaction with my debit card only to have the very same thing happen. Card marked as invalid because fraud/terrorist/9-11.
Neither my bank nor my credit card company have found a solution to me using my "take it anywhere in the world" credit card on the world wide web to make a purchase.
Apparently me spending my money from my home to a business overseas is fraud. Literally the government and corporations have decided that I can't spend my money outside of this nation because of fraud.
I am a citizen to a country that has built a virtual wall around its economic citizens entrapping me in the "free market" ... and now their will be talk again of a real wall built around our nation to protect us from immigrant/terrorists/Clone Wars.
The Berlin wall was not built to keep the West Germans out ... it was to keep the East Germans in.
The digital wall is almost done. This election will boost the production of the real one.
I just learned that credit card companies keep secret spending profiles on their customers. If your spending goes outside of the secret file then it is marked as fraud.
I may not view my file. I may not edit it. I may not speak to anyone that has access to it.
Secret lists held by unaccountable unidentifiable people control my money.
Did the credit card companies learned this from the DHS after 9-11 or was it the other way around?