Ah yes, the "check for fraud every morning" routine, basically a daily scavenger hunt where the prize is finding out you're paying for someone's gas in another state. Three fake charges in 11 days is wild though, feels like the scammers set up a recurring subscription to your money. Bank acts all helpful telling you to monitor it yourself while they sit back and collect the fees.

Ha, moved my feeders closer to the fence and they came back.

That part about the scorch marks inside a hairline crack is the scary bit, because at a glance in the bin you would never see it. I have noticed this same thing with all kinds of secondhand stuff, where the outside looks fine but the inside is cooked, like used chargers, old hair dryers, extension cords, basically anything that pulls real power. Thrift stores are where people dump the thing that started acting weird, and nobody tests it before it hits the shelf. So you end up playing the odds on something for two bucks that could burn your house down. My rule now is if it has a heating element or a cord, I just leave it. A lamp or a picture frame is fine, but power stuff is not worth the gamble, even cheap. The money you save is nothing next to what a fire costs.