Had a thought for you Flur this morning as I was awoken by the CIBC (one of the Canadian banks) Fraud Prevention service on the phone, asking me whether I had spend $258 at an Online Casino, $50 at some computer store in Luxembourg and $1 on iTunes. The computer store and the iTunes things actually had received automatic approval because they're not unlike my usual purchase habits. But the Casino stuff raised a red flag, so they did not authorize that one without calling me first. Not a bad system. Sometimes Big Brother works well for the Little Guy.

The answer, of course, is no, so they're canceling my card (my husband's card on the same account is fine) and I'll have to sign a paper confirming that I didn't buy that stuff in Luxembourg nor that song on iTunes, and everything will be fine.

Interesting that the thieves proceeded exactly as explained in an article I read recently: they have big lots of credit card numbers which they run to make small purchases (like one iTunes song). If the number works, then they proceed to make bigger purchases.