Dammit, dammit, DAMMIT! Happened once in 2017, and now this AM, while sucking down a cuppa joe to get woke up to go sit in the woods, I'm online, looking at my account ('cause that's a damn smart thing to do!) I notice a .pending 01 charge from "Bocce ball set", so I called my credit union, they saw another one (.01) from some other obscure vendor, and after I grilled my wife about it (nope), there is no other conclusion, they said it must be an attempt to try the card before they hit it big time.
If I could catch one of those SOBs, I'd dress, skin and quarter him* in my garage over a weekend...
* since I didn't see a deer this am...
Exact same thing happened to me yesterday am. 2 charges, each for 1 cent and different places, though my CC company called to verify the suspicious charges.
My guess is they try to slip a low transaction, and if it isn't flagged, then you get raped.
