HSBC (UK) has erroneously blocked my monthly donations to the EFF on the basis of "fraud protection" for 2 consecutive months now and I'm wondering whether this is a more widespread issue.<p>Also, is there any good reason why the EFF would be triggering this type of transaction block with banks?
Donations to charity in general often cause credit cards to be blocked -- my wife and I do this thing[1] where we give large amounts to multiple charities on the same day each year, and last year it took a couple days to get all the charges to be successful and cards unblocked.<p>I think the idea is that credit card thieves use charitable donations to figure out whether they have a valid card, so they're considered especially suspicious[2].<p>[1]: <a href="http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/11/27/celebrating-seven-years-with-seven-percent/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.printf.net/articles/2012/11/27/celebrating-seven...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/070607-credit-card-thieves.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/070607-credit-card-thi...</a>