I found out the hard way that nothing is really safe in these days of internet travel. My ATM card was ripped off and used to order "items" from iTunes yesterday. My wife being the vigilant person that she is, she logged onto our bank site yesterday and saw our account accumulating multiple charges with iTunes from Luxembourg in Europe. Waking our daughter up, she questioned her, but she denied downloading the latest music. She hurriedly called the bank who immediately shutdown my bank card number. I was glad I did not go out to eat lunch anywhere yesterday, as I might have been washing dishes for a few hours in payment.I have always wanted to travel to Europe, just not from a virtual point of view. My dad always claimed that our ancestors were from Luxembourg. The reason he did this was the negative reaction of people to anything German during WWII. One of the results of searching is that the name Ehlinger is traditionaly German and means: habitational name for someone from Ehlingen in the Palatinate. Looks like we have more in common with the Fatherland than we thought. Sorry, Dad.
So our little brush with internet outlaws has taught us some important lessons. 1) Use Paypal. It's safer. 2) Change all of your passwords, since the harvesting of the bank card number may have happened in several different ways. 3) Take your computers, all of them, to the cleaners(various programs to rid one of malware). 4) Lastly, check thy bank statement online every day, for the thieves are thick out there in the Cloud.
