A friend and i were on a business trip a couple months ago.   Whilst we were waiting in the airport his messaging honker on his phone started going off, about once every minute-two minutes.

went on for about ten minutes, finally it ended after a he made a phone call.  Being the curious sort that I am I finally asked him what was going on.

it would seem that somebody in Paris, France was having a good time on his card, and the credit card company caught it right away.