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Some cheeky fucker tried to buy themselves a new vacuum cleaner online in the Boxing Day sales with my credit card (they also opted to spread it over four payments which seems idiotic). I hardly ever use it except for big purchases where I want more protection so I'm not sure how they got the details; I actually used it a bit more in the US when I was there last month and they tend to whisk your card away to do god knows what with it so at first I thought that would be the culprit but it's a UK site selling the cleaner. Only online store I remember I used it with recently is Etsy which I'd hope would be secure but I have to admit I no longer have any idea how people straight up steal credit card details any more (as opposed to identity theft which seems more popular). NatWest called me out of the blue saying there'd been suspicious activity, cancelled the card and refunded me so there was no damage to me thankfully but this is the first time I've had the fraud call and was like 'woah that was NOT me buying that'.