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I’m sorry you had that experience, it seems like it really affected your holiday.

I have been proactively notified about fraud by Amex, Discover, as well as other banks. Amex seems to be the loosest with allowing questionable but valid purchases, and my Visa cards the strictest.

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Maybe they woke up to how bad that policy was.

Here's another one that relegated my AmEx card to a drawer: To redeem airline-ticket benefits, AmEx forced you to use their own Web portal to book your flights. This inept portal considered LaGuardia and Newark a connection. As in... you can walk from a terminal in one to a terminal in the other to catch the next leg of your flight.

WTF.

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