Hats off, grey clouds over Bangalore!

Just as I was preparing to leave Bangalore on Friday night the heavens opened. One of the downsides of this is that the dusty Indian roads become muddy very quickly and the tiled walkways in the Wipro campus become quite treacherous underfoot. However that was only part of the grey cloud – it transpired on Friday that someone in the UK has been using my credit card fraudulently to the tune of a few thousand Euros – hopefully everything is going to be ok but there were a few frantic calls back to France before I headed to the airport. I do however have to say hats off to American Express Fraud department because it was they who rang me to alert me to what looked to be suspicious activity. Given my recent travel schedule, where I could be in up to four different countries in any given week, it is no mean feat on their part to be able to detect that some spending in Bishop’s Stortford in the UK was indeed errant. I really wonder how the little toe-rag, whoever he was, managed to get my card details. As I sit here in Paris Orly airport waiting to board my final flight to home, blogging about it serves as a useful reminder of the need to be cautious with such information in this age of convenience and the internet.