Two weeks ago I got cloned. No, not another me, the living breathing me, not a clone of one more running fanatic. Rather, it was my credit card which got cloned.
Last Tuesday, I received a call from Citibank asking me to call the Fraud Unit. Fraud unit !. Had I just defrauded one of the largest banks in the world out of billions of ringgit? No according to the sweet wowan on the line, my credit card had been cloned and used in a fraudulent manner. So Citibank will stop payment from the existing card until I get a replacement card. I received the new card today.
Meanhile I racked ny brains trying to recall where my credit card could have been cloned. I did not use the card in Indonesia. I don't use it at restaurants, clothing shops or petrol stations where cloning is quite rampant. I was careful to use the card at large established establishments. Even these precautions failed to prevent the identity fraud.
To those who cloned my credit card, may you burn in a retail hell.
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