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You're not the only one it's happened to.
I got a new AMEX Gold and was trying to make a couple of big charges on my card when it first triggered a fraud alert. Eventually they told me they needed me to take the same form you're talking about to my bank and get it notarized.
I'm still waiting for them to unlock my card for use now. I've been holding off on making some big purchases hoping to get a jump on my spend requirement for the bonus MR but I may have to reconsider if it's worth the hassle if this process takes too long.
Congratulations on the new Freedom card!
I have history to laugh at the dunked cell phone.
My daughter destroyed every phone I got her over the years, fortunately they were low cost:
1) Left in a pocket in clothing that went through the wash machine. She had to have this phone because it was micro-mini small small. Easier to lose in a pocket I guess.
2) Ran over after it somehow dropped in a parking lot. This was a very low cost phone, after the first one.
3) Helping a friend clean a swimming pool, phone in a kangaroo pocket of a loose sweatshirt, phone dropped into the pool of course. (This was an old Treo I had used and moved on to the iPhone, gave it to her as a "zero cost" replacement after the earlier phones showed a pattern of drowning and destruction)
4) Flipped open/closed the Motorola Razr so many times it disassembled the hinge.
5) She did better with the iPhone 5 when she finally had to buy one herself. Then, trying to talk with the phone tucked with her shoulder and carrying a box, the phone slipped and hit the concrete. Of course no cell phone case that day. It "only" shattered the screen, but dented the corner so needed a whole replacement phone.
My iPhone fell into the pedicure tub one day, too. The guy who was doing my pedi jumped up and snatched it out of the water and towelled off the front...threw his hands in the air and yelled, "It's ok, it's ok, it's gonna be fine...it was riding on an air bubble!" LOL
Sure enough, there was just the teensiest little smidge of water inside the camera opening in the case (it was just a regular case, not lifeproof or waterproof, completely open on the front). I kept that phone for another year and a half and it worked perfectly.