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Re: How Does This Happen?

#9096
From: Chicago Paddling-Fishing
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:01
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In chi.general Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Seems like the contractor that processes payments for the Chicago
>Transit Authority had a wee problem the other day. Seems their system
>queued up a few months' worth of customers' charges, and then sent
>them through all at once. Apparently this caused some problems for
>some people, as the "unexpected" "over"charges showed up at an
>inconvenient time and caused overdrafts and NSF fees.

Interesting, I wonder if this affected all cards. While I was at scout camp
the first two weeks of july they reloaded my + card which implys that it was
used...  they didn't overdraft me or put it over any limits, just a reload
which I didn't think too much about...

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