Current Events > You know, thank you for looking out for me but...

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I really wish I had a way to tell my bank "disable fraud alert/prevention on this credit card for 1 or 2 hours". I would absolutely demand such a feature be heavily secured (like needing two separate rounds of 2FA to authorize through your banking app - something my banking app does when I want to look at the full account and routing numbers of one of my accounts) but I still wish it existed so I could preemptively notify my bank if I'm about to make a really strange or sketchy transaction(s).

I ran into this yesterday (I kind of expected to but it's aggravating nonetheless) because I tried to make a series of purchases that 100% look like I'm either being scammed or someone stole my credit card (trying to buy huge quantities of Apple gift cards at a gas station) but it was totally legit (that credit card gets the highest rate of cash back on purchases made at gas stations and I want to use those gift cards to buy my next iPhone). I managed to purchase one gift card but every other attempt I made for the rest of the day backfired no matter where I went and I can't tell if it's because my credit card is locking itself down (I got a fraud notification text from the bank but I said every attempted transaction that they were dinging my card for were ones I had authorized) or the gas stations themselves because of thieves trying to buy up as many gift cards as they can with a credit account before the owner shuts it down. I don't disagree with either scenario but if I'm the one trying to use my credit card in a really bizarre way it would be a lot easier to understand what I'm running up against if I could eliminate one of these two restrictions so I know what's causing it if I'm still getting blocked. Since I can't tell which one is impeding me I have no idea if trying to contact my bank is actually fixing the problem or just kicking the can down the road because I'm still tripping their antifraud prevention.

Beyond help