Is "Debit Purchase -visa Card XXXXfood City #471 Prest" fraud?

Written by Ava Morales

June 18th, 2024

Medium Risk

What is "Debit Purchase -visa Card XXXXfood City #471 Prest"?

Food City is a supermarket chain that has been in business since 1955. The chain offers a variety of retail products including grocery items, fresh produce, meats, dairy products, frozen foods, and bakery items. Additionally, Food City provides household essentials, health and beauty products, and pet supplies. The company also includes in some locations pharmacy services and fuel centers.

**Debit Purchase**: Indicates the type of transaction (a purchase using a debit card)

**Visa Card**: Specifies the card network used for the transaction (Visa)

**XXXX**: Placeholder for the last four digits of the card number involved in the transaction

**Food City #471**: Specifies the merchant/store and possibly the store number (Food City location #471)

**Prestonsburg, KY**: Indicates the location of the transaction (Prestonsburg, Kentucky)

Verify if this transaction is fraud in 30 seconds

Verify With Receipt

The best way to tell if this charge is fraudulent is to find the receipt. You may have an electronic copy of the receipt, which you can finding by searching in your email accounts for.

Or, if you want to automatically find and reconcile receipts so you never worry about fraud, you can use SimplyWise to automatically match all bank and credit card transactions to email and paper receipts. The app instantly reconciles your expenses and flags anything that doesn't match.

STEP 1

Connect your Email

Download the SimplyWise app and connect your email account. SimplyWise will search through your emails and find all the receipts in your inbox. This allows you to understand what exactly you are paying for when you see a bank transaction on your statement.

STEP 2

Connect Your Bank

Connect to your bank account/credit card transactions through the secure (256 bit encryption) Reconciliation feature within the app.

STEP 3

Reconcile

Reconcile the charges reported by your financial institution against what you've recorded in your SimplyWise account. Find fraud quickly! SimplyWise will match your transactions to your bank/credit card spending and check those items off.