Woman Goes To Pilot. Then Her Card Flags It As Fraud. Then She Realizes It’s Because They Tried $226 Hold: ‘Buc-ee’s Does It Too'

A woman traveling through Alabama is shocked when her card is declined not once but twice at a Pilot gas station. Here is what happened.

TikTok creator Mixed Media (@mixed_media22) posted a video from outside of the gas station. “Tell me why I’m at the gas pump somewhere in Alabama, and my card’s just declined, and then I get notifications asking me, ‘Is this fraud?’” she says to start the video.

She continues, “Because it’s $226, and they’re like, 'That’s not normal.' And it [usually] puts a dollar hold on it. So my bank’s like, ‘That don’t look right.’ So they declined the charge. But I didn’t know that was the reason why.”

Why Did An Alabama Pilot Put a $226 Hold On Her Card?

In an attempt to resolve the situation, Mixed Media says she decided to swipe a different card and ran into the same problem.