Ouch! That beats any of the things we've been hit with... but we've also learned the hard way. We have one account that has no cards attached at all. That's where all of our money goes into - and then smaller amounts filter out from there to our other accounts. That set up was after being caught out by an ATM card skimming thing. We lost $1200.

We've also had encounters with credit card theft (that was a pain to deal with!) and a couple of times that our credit card details have been used fraudulently. The first we've known about it each time was when the credit card company's fraud department contacted us - so it's really surprising that they didn't pick up such excessive use of itunes. Even if it is frequently used online I would imagine it would trigger alarms somewhere. These days we keep the credit limit very low (more for our benefit than anything else - so we can always pay it off) and we've actually managed to trigger the fraud alarms with our own purchases a couple of times.

I hope it gets sorted very quickly. Having that much money tied up in fraud investigations wouldn't be fun.

BW