Muffy1938, Littlesister, OldMtWoman – Thank you! Hopefully the replacement Visa card will arrive soon. In the meantime, I’ve arranged to pay some of the bills I usually have automatically charged on that card (which I then pay off each month) the old fashioned way – by a check in the mail. Some, such as my Amazon Prime subscription, won’t accept payment by check so I’ll just have to wait until my new Visa card arrives to pay that one. Oh well, it could have been a lot worse. As of now, it doesn’t seem as though the crook got my Visa card number through my computer – at least the security scans I’ve run on it with Malwarebytes and Bitdefender say there’s no malware in my computer. Still, I’m going to change all my passwords again just in case. I don’t know for certain but I think that the crook may work for PayPal or may have somehow hacked the webpage PayPal uses for customers to update their credit card info. The reason I think that is that the card number was fraudulently used within 24 hours after I went to that PayPal webpage to update the old Visa card info. they had on file. The update was necessary because my card issuer had just sent me a new card to replace my old one that was due to expire at the end of February. I noticed at the time that the PayPal webpage for credit card updates seemed glitchy, and I had to re-enter the numbers several times before the update “went through”. I’m going to let PayPal know that so they can check and see if someone was hacking that webpage. When my new Visa card arrives in a week or two, I’m going to phone in the new information to PayPal instead of using their update webpage – just in case!
RufusJ – Glad to hear about the new glaucoma medicine. Hope you get good results on Tuesday! Congratulations on your new grandchild 🙂
I haven’t gotten much prepping done the last couple of days but did have a nice chat with an old friend about prepping this past Saturday. He has known for about 20 years that I’m a “prepper”. He wasn’t one, and he used to tease me a lot about the supplies and food I stockpile. He was also a die-hard pacifist who hated firearms. Well, I was floored when out of the blue at our lunch on Saturday, he started asking me serious, non-teasing questions about prepping, and told me he’s decided he wants to get trained to use firearms for self-defense! It’s taken a very long time but it looks like what I’ve been telling him for the past 20 years finally “sunk in”, LOL.
Yesterday I started my monthly round of grocery shopping. I got my usual groceries but also found a good buy on some Campbell’s condensed “cream of” soups (cream of chicken, cream of mushroom, cream of celery, and cheddar cheese soup) that are great for recipes if you don’t have the time to make your own creamy sauces. So, I bought several of each kind to add to my food storage pantry. Is it just my imagination or have those cans gotten a lot smaller in the past few years?