What to do about suspected debit card fraud? [more inside]
posted by sickinthehead on Jul 29, 2009 - 15 answers

A random person in a city I don't live in called me and said he was seeing two charges for $155 each on his bank statement, and his bank says I'm the party that the payments were made to. What kind of scam is this, how did I get involved, and what's my responsibility? [more inside]
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Jul 3, 2009 - 12 answers

Assuming I'm a US citizen with no bank account, what's the best way to obtain a debit card, bank account, or credit card within the US? I'll need it for online ID verification, online ordering, paypal, and the other standard slough of uses a debit card is good for. [more inside]
posted by saysthis on May 19, 2009 - 11 answers

Two debit cards + One checkbook register = Recipe for disaster. Suggestions? [more inside]
posted by skypieces on Apr 15, 2009 - 18 answers

Is most money just numbers on a computer screen? Or do banks actually have cash in their vaults to back up the "digital" money. [more inside]
posted by All.star on Feb 4, 2009 - 23 answers

"Information from certain Bank of America Check Cards may have been compromised." Did anyone else receive this letter, and does anyone know anything about it? [more inside]
posted by chrisfromthelc on Jan 26, 2009 - 4 answers

Can I lend my girlfriend my debit card? She is visiting from overseas and might want to go buy groceries or stuff while I'm at work. We don't have a bunch of cash to hand nor any great desire to visit an ATM and withdraw some. Can I just lend her my debit card and tell her the PIN? It has my name on it, and it's pretty obviously not her name...
posted by hAndrew on Dec 30, 2008 - 23 answers

Charged too much for my supermarket sandwich, what should I do? [more inside]
posted by altolinguistic on Oct 29, 2008 - 17 answers

Why won't some places accept my unbranded debit card? [more inside]
posted by 14580 on Jun 19, 2007 - 26 answers

How did someone steal my Debit card number, fabricate a fake card, then get my PIN? + How can I catch them? [more inside]
posted by marxfriedrice on May 23, 2007 - 22 answers

Credit filter: How do companies know you're using a debit card? [more inside]
posted by hollygoheavy on Jul 29, 2006 - 7 answers

Okay--I checked my checking account balance last night via my bank's automated phone line. The system told me that my balance was several hundred dollars overdrawn, and when I checked the most recently posted transactions, the amounts ($50 -75) did not immediately ring a bell. [more inside]
posted by theperfectcrime on Jun 10, 2005 - 24 answers

How can I contest a debit card charge from a bar if I don't have the receipt? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by kirkaracha on Dec 20, 2004 - 21 answers

Why does putting tape or a piece of paper over a magnetic strip on a debit car make it scan when it fails on normal swipes?
posted by srboisvert on Sep 22, 2004 - 1 answer