I had this happen once - I flew to a city about 8 hours of driving time away to buy a motorcycle and landed late in the evening. My card was declined when I got gas a little after midnight and I had no cash or other card with me so I called the 24 hour support line. I had a quick conversation with a support agent explaining that I was traveling and the card needed to be reactivated right away. Within five minutes the card was working and I was back to working my way down a long chain of mistakes.
As the tail end of the article explains these are independent pieces of evidence not independent proofs: most of them can be legitimate operations (even the speed one, airliners cruise at that speed but if you get to ride a long-range business plane they can cruise faster).