I just off of a phone call with one of my banks. They called me to ask if I signed up for a membership to Monster.com and I told them no since, well, I hadn’t signed up. They said OK and they had declined the charge.
I started going over some recent statements and told them that I saw another charge on my card that wasn’t me (to some celebrity gossip site). After a little investigation it turns out that some asshat got a copy of my credit card number and was charging stuff up on it. What a bastard. Now the card has been canceled and a new one is on its way.
This is the second time this has happened to me. I wonder if how they got the card numbers are related? Oh well… all of that sucks, but at least my bank was proactive about tracking odd-looking purchases and called me to see what was going on.