{"id":417893,"date":"2010-03-11T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003140"},"modified":"2010-03-11T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:38:26","slug":"chase-thinks-boston-non-smoker-bought-100-worth-of-smokes-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/417893","title":{"rendered":"Chase Thinks Boston Non-Smoker Bought $100 Worth Of Smokes In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/3571996024_4c5ca28432_m-thumb-156x117-38014.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Now that Chase has reversed their initial decision and <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/chase-returns-retired-teachers-stolen-6200.html\">issued a refund<\/a> to the retiree they accused of credit card fraud, maybe they can take a look at a rather similar case, but on a smaller scale. Reader P tells Consumerist that Chase ruled that he is responsible for some uncharacteristic purchases he purportedly made thousands of miles away from where he was at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Chase Bank Visa team are trying to stick me (a generic middle-aged Irish-named white guy near Boston who does not smoke or play the lottery and hasn&#8217;t left the area in months) with the bogus charges on a credit card receipt showing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>redemption of a winning $80 lottery ticket,<\/li>\n<li>purchase of over $100 cigarettes and sundries, and<\/li>\n<li>the clear signature of one R. [Spanish last name],<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;all taking place at a 7-Eleven near Tampa in February.<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying letter from Chase says, &#8220;[&#8230;]we have researched your dispute[&#8230;]  Based upon the information on the sales slip, the charge is considered valid.[&#8230;]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amazing!  It&#8217;s like being on Candid Camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds like there&#8217;s something odd going on here. You know who I bet would love to hear about it? Chase&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/having-a-problem-with-chase-bank-heres-where-to-turn.html\">executive customer service team.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Chase has reversed their initial decision and issued a refund to the retiree they accused of credit card fraud, maybe they can take a look at a rather similar case, but on a smaller scale. Reader P tells Consumerist that Chase ruled that he is responsible for some uncharacteristic purchases he purportedly made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}