Cards

The phone rang.

It was a nice lady from the credit card company. The Gorse Fox had just paid for some flights so he was not surprised. They are very good at spotting odd transactions.

"I would just like to check some transaction against your card" she said. We went through the usual security verification process and then she read out the transaction for the trip GF had just booked.

"Yes, no problem" GF explained.

"What about ...." she said, reeling off a catalogue of recent transactions.

"No"
"No"
"No"
"No"
"Definitely, not"
and so the conversation continued.

It would appear that some little erk has cloned the GF's card and started trying to spend his harde-earned money.

GF was less than amused. He has determined that card cloning/theft should be punishable by chemical castration or death. You may think this a bit extreme, but GF believes it to be firm but fair and that it would act as a deterrent!