You'd think with all the tools we have at our disposal to monitor our bank accounts that this wouldn't be allowed to happen. I check my bank accounts regularly and I completely missed the $5.10 withdrawal by Witifile but my bank (thank goodness) didn't. It's not a huge amount in fact its so small that lumped in with all the other transactions I just assumed it was meant to be there.
Once the bank had alerted me I started to look into Witifile and found I'm not the only one. Somehow they've gotten hold of a bunch of card numbers and debited that small amount from each one. If you times $5.10 by millions suddenly its not such a small amount any more. The moral of this post is, check your bank account and if you don't recognize a transaction call the bank, they will be able to tell you more and dispute the charge if necessary and unlike me keep all your receipts until the bank has put them through which I will be doing from now on.
Now I'm stuck with a dead debit card until my new one arrives.
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