The Fraud Detection Experts - Your Bank?
Believe it or not, your bank is among the experts in fraud detection. Many of us have experienced urgent phone calls from the bank when we make a larger-than-normal purchase, and this is a good thing. The bank's systems constantly track customers' card use - amount, locations, day of time, etc. to develop a map of your spending habits - and it's when something wanders out of this map that they alert customers before serious damage can be done. Doing so gives customers a chance to interrupt fraud as it happens, as well as minimizing losses for the bank.