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Discover Struggles to Rectify Fraudulent Charges Efficiently
In my experience, after fraudulent charges appeared for subscription services – a recent fraud tactic (think Netflix, HBO, LinkedIn, etc.), Discover has struggled to rectify the situation properly. Requiring many phone calls and a lot of back and forth. They mentioned criminals try a few smaller charges to see if they go through – subscription sign-ups of any kind are used because the criminal can remain completely anonymous. Tends to go like this: 1. Notice fraud charge(s) on your account. 2. Phone to alert Discover, contest the charges, cancel the card, get a new one in the mail. Fine, this makes sense. 3. Temporary credits issued. 4. Weeks elapse. 5. Temp credits are withdrawn. 6. Then a "courtesy" credit is supposed to be issued to end a fraud charge. It's insulting they call it a "courtesy" when they advertise that users are never on the hook for fraud charges. It's not a courtesy when you are doing what you advertise. Don't act like you're doing me a favor – I do you a favor by using your services. 7. BIG PROBLEM HERE – a fraudster tried to test the card number by signing up for some recurring things online, a LinkedIn subscription of some sort was one example. EVEN AFTER THE CARD WAS CANCELLED, that charge kept occurring! Discover explained that recurring charges continue to happen even after a card is cancelled. Unbelievable. More headache from that. Once a card is cancelled, it should be unusable, but that is not the case. 8. Back and forth for months, credits, credits rescinded, waiting for proper adjustment to zero out all fraud charges. I'll continue to monitor until everything is completely corrected. But I would not recommend the Discover Card due to their inability to quickly and efficiently rectify fraud events and fully cancel compromised cards from all future charges.



