Is "Card - TXU BILL PAYMENT" fraud?

Written by Julian Sanchez

June 18th, 2024

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What is "Card - TXU BILL PAYMENT"?

TXU Energy has been in business for more than a century, providing electricity services to residential and commercial customers in Texas. The company offers a range of retail electricity products including fixed-rate plans, variable-rate plans, and renewable energy options. TXU Energy also provides services such as energy usage monitoring tools and home protection plans. They serve a large customer base across Texas and operate within the deregulated Texas electricity market.

  • Card: Indicates the payment method used was a card transaction.
  • TXU: Identifies the merchant or payee, in this case, TXU Energy.
  • BILL PAYMENT: Specifies the nature of the transaction, which is a payment toward a bill.

    • 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.

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