Okay, last month I discover that someone had hacked into an ATM machine there, got my pin number from my Santander debit card and stole a few hundred bucks from my account.

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During a particularly tense round in which players were vying to create an "X" on their bingo cards, one man yelled out, "I only have one number left on my whole card!"

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To make it worse, the L.L. Bean site failed to save my name, address, phone number and credit card.

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My brother-in-law gave her his credit card number in order to Fed-ex to him.

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Odd, I thought, that the toll-free number that had previously made it easy to order up a check had magically disappeared from my credit card statement.

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