Today, I waited until the last minute to do my Christmas shopping. Today, I also discovered that my bank account has been frozen due to suspicious activity. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I got an email that my Amazon account was probably hacked, and they have gone ahead and canceled all orders that seemed suspicious. Two days ago I was celebrating that I'd finished Christmas shopping early. Never mind. FML
Today, I finally decided to go Christmas shopping. It's only once I arrived that I realized that I had forgotten my wallet. FML
Today, I had to contact my bank because their fraud department thought me buying gifts for 7 different people for Christmas was fraud. It wouldn't be a big deal, except they then wouldn't accept the original purchase and I had to go to the website to get the purchase to go through a second time. My bank is paranoid. FML
Today, my bank, being overly paranoid about fraud, declined my Christmas purchase on Amazon because I usually don't spend that much all at once. Instead of Amazon simply asking to try the card again, they instead switched to a different card in the wallet. Which would be fine, except it's a shared family account. FML
Today, I noticed that even though I got all my Christmas shopping done a month earlier than usual, I forgot to put anything in the mail. FML
Today, I went to my local bank after getting an email from them concerning unknown purchases. Four hours later, I was still in police custody. Someone had been using my account to purchase guns and drugs. FML
Today, my credit card got blocked. Apparently, my bank thinks buying a $130 flat iron online is suspicious. FML
Today, I woke up to find both of my bank accounts frozen. My bank informed me that the IRS had ordered a freeze on my assets because of back taxes owed, and would not unfreeze them until the money is paid. The amount? $2.47. FML
Today, I discovered my mom has been using my credit card to buy everyone's Christmas presents. FML
Today, my mom and I went to Best Buy for some Christmas shopping. She picked up some presents for me and told me not to look at what she was buying. When we got to the register, she didn't have enough money, and I ended up having to buy my own presents. FML
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Top comments
null_fml 11
The EXACT same thing happened to me. But I have very few gifts left to buy, and my bank (Scotiabank) is awesome and will unfreeze my account and give me a new card and PIN right on the spot.
txgirl09 5
waiting until the last minute is a lame move but we've all done that before.
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Comments (33)
MagicMeds 0
wrong comment... replies are acting up methinks
blastvortex 4
Um, yeah, that can happen when there's ABNORMAL ACTIVITY, despite the time of year. Call the bank with details and proof of ownership and they should fix it; it shouldn't take too awful long... unless you waste your time goofing off on FML instead, that is.
jonny2x4 0
MLIA
terriibabiiix23 0
wait, what were you doing that was 'suspicious' ?
Erindub 0
**** Christmas! I hate the holidays
fmleveryday1121 0
that happened to me last christmas also. The bank noticed i was spending a great amount of money so they froze it incase someone else was using my card
Norther 1
last minute? It is a whole month 'til christmas!
okiidokii_fml 6
2 years ago on the 12/22/09 read the date hello??
shelbz7 2
that happened to my mom and the " suspicious activity" was large sums of money being spent at once. It's Christmas people! geez!
okiidokii_fml 6
When I have kids I'm probally gonna get them gifts peice by piece that way we never have to worry about this dumb idea. Seriously???!!?? (I know this is from Christmas)
blackwidowtaco 31
Probably*