24/06/2008 VISA PURCHASE
MARKS & SPENCER OUTLET, ASHFORD 22/06 GB
 431.000 GBP  AU$893.59

It appears I got frauded on my Visa card. All I used a card for was the expensive Thai seafood restaurant, but a Thai seafood restaurant isn’t GBP 431. And they’re probably not owned by Marks and Spencer in the UK.  Oh, and a charge for 3,900 THB from ”The Seafood Palace” is on my other credit card so it’s probably just random fraud.

So the paperwork to dispute the transaction is in the mail, and that’ll be a long boring process until I hopefully get my money back.

The interesting thing is that my bank say the card was physically presented and signed for, not keyed electronically. That means it’s either a mistake, a case of the merchant having a hand in the fraud, or some cyber-mafia credit card cloning operation. // whoa!