How to avoid getting your credit card blocked
[QUOTE=Kumbu;1447750]It may also have been because of the 1984 Oscar award winning movie by that same name, starring Sam Waterston.[/QUOTE]Good point. I remember the film.
[QUOTE=Kumbu;1447750]I made my hotel reservations last night for BKK, and this morning my credit card was blocked. Making hotel reservations in the same location that you also purchased air tickets to not 4 weeks earlier is apparently too big of a leap for their sophisticated algorithms to make.[/QUOTE]I always contact my bank and the issuers of the credit cards I will use and notify them of my travels. I also am registered with the USA State Dept and give them my itinerary and next of kin contact information should something happen to me. As my government is collecting data from my phone calls and emails, as well as where I drive my car, I have little privacy left to lose and don't worry about telling them this stuff. And yes, I did write "where I drive my car." For years local and state law enforcement have been scanning auto tags and building a database of where everyone drives in the USA. That may be news to some of you. Some of you may have been aware this has been going on since the beginning of The War on Terrorism. Don't you feel so much safer now.