If a credit fraud was committed out of city limits what steps should be taken?

If a crime has been committed you have to be able to report it somewhere. If you can’t report it to the police in LA, they say you need to report it in your own location, what do the local authorities say you need to do? Have you asked them about the form?

And, you must have reported the fraud to your credit card company, what do they say you should do?

First report it to your credit card provider, they should take it from there.
I am sure they can assist you in this matter.

As a side note, you should always alert your CC providers when you will be traveling, especially out of the country so they will not view any transactions as suspicious.

Forget the police for now, file a report with the card company asap.

You don’t file a report with anyone but your credit card company. They’ll handle it from there. And, take @Coloma‘s advice. Before going on any trip, call and let them know where the card will be used.

Our cards have been used in Tel Aviv a few times…but we’ve never left the country ;)

@Coloma The credit card company will not file a report, they told us that we would have to do that on our own time, which, to me, sounds a little unreasonable since other companies will file reports for you.

@mayratapia_ Are they sending you new cards & deleting the charges?

The new card thing, yes. We have asked for new cards and have changed our PINs etc. As far as the charges go, I’m not sure if they are going to return the money we haven’t spent or if they are going to wait until the report has been filed to do so.

You shouldn’t even have needed to ask for new cards, they should have taken it upon themselves to cancel the cards immediately. If this happened to me, I would call the CC again and tell them to remove charges you didn’t make. The rest is on them to do. It’s their job to follow up. Someone stole money from their company, not from you.