Thursday, January 11, 2007

Safe Banking

Earlier in day I subscribed to Amazon S3 using my HDFC Bank Visa credit card. Though S3 is pay-for-what-you-use kind of service, they still do a verification transaction on your credit card. So they charged 1 Rupee from my card. Probably they would revert this transaction after some time.
But my bank got suspicious about this 1 Rupee transaction from Amazon, US and immediately called me up asking if the transaction was actually made by me. When asked they said they generally go for a confirmation from the card holder on certain suspicious internet transactions.

Safe banking guys! Alas one worthy call among those annoying credit card/personal loan marketing calls.

4 comments:

  1. Hehe... Happens once in a bluemoon dude... We bank with citibank in Bangalore... And they're the worst blackhounds in the world... You have no idea what happens to the money as long as it's with them!!!

    Neways, Howz u pal??? How're things goin??? And yeah, try to get spam off your blog...

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