One little piece of advice from my wife's trip to Britain last year. Jan gave the bank a complete
rundown of the planned trip, where she was going and when. It was a two week trip and the day
she got back the TD Bank called about a few charges from Iceland. She still has yet to visited Iceland.
Somewhere in Scotland, in a restaurant, it took a long time to get her card back after paying for breakfast.
She thinks that is where the card was cloned.
My card wound up in Los Angeles. It doesn't even have to take long if they use a modified credit card scanner.
The reason you give notification is so they don't auto-trigger a fraud alert and decline your transactions.