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Virgin credit card fraud team

Applied for a virgin credit card and was successfully approved. But I received a letter over ther weekend from the MBNA fraud team
stating that they are trying to get in contact with me (missed their call), what could this be about?
Credit Card Debts: £11,605.95/£16,240.53 - 71% paid off.

£4,634.61 credit card debt remaining. Aim for credit card debt free before
[STRIKE]October 2011[/STRIKE] December 2012. In debt since 2004.

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  • ineed
    ineed Posts: 4,432 Forumite
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    Could be they're just checking a purchase you've made over a certain amount, that happened to my partner before with his Capital One card. If its a recent application and you haven't made a purchase yet or had the card through the post it could just be a security check.
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  • InsideInsurance
    InsideInsurance Posts: 22,460 Forumite
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    Assuming you havent actually received the card etc it can be simply part of their checks. When I applied with Nationwide it all went through fine but subsequently had their counter fraud team contacting me asking me to send proof of income into them.
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