About a year ago my mom, sisters, and I took a trip to Canada from the USA. We lived there when I was a baby so my parents have a bank account affiliated with the country. While we were there we doordashed and used that bank account. Today my dad gets his phone blown up from the bank notifying him of his $600 if debt and overdraft fees. My stomach dropped when he messaged the family group chat and my gut told me to check my doordash. Sure enough, it was saved on my account and has been the primary source of payment for the last YEAR. He’s currently fighting with the fraud department over the phone. I showed him the card info on my receipts and he has yet to answer my texts. On top of all of this, yesterday I totaled my car and this is my sweet cherry on top of my bad news. Needless to say, I am now very embarrassed and $600 in surprise debt. 😭🥲
TL;DR I’ve been ACCIDENTALLY using a bank account on doordash that isn’t mine, spent $600 over the last year on it, and now I am scrambling to make that extra money in a timely manner to pay it off.
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How do you not notice when you buy something and it never came out?
Reminds me of when I thought I had free Xbox live for years somehow but really it was charging my dad’s card every month lol luckily he paid it though without realizing
I booked a $6,000 near month long Airbnb using my MIL credit card over a year ago in a similar mistake. We’d stayed for a weekend at a place and she offered to pay, next time I use the account was a work trip.
It wasn’t until she said she had fraud and called the bank and happened to mention the amount that I connected the dots and checked my accounts. Explained to her my mistake and that I would pay her back but had put it on a credit card because I didn’t have the cash until the client reimbursed me. She luckily laughed it off and called the bank to correct the fraud alert and calls me fraudster from time to time now.
How does your dad not get billed for this all along?