I Just Got Scammed On My Credit Card and Google Pay

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I feel so foolish right now. I'm kicking myself in the butt. I received an incoming phone call from someone saying they were with the Fraud Department at my credit card company. They gave me the first 8 digits of my credit card. They knew my name. They told me there were attempted charges at a WalMart store in Alabama and online for software and asked me if I had made them. Naturally I said no. They went into this whole spiel about how they could cancel my card for me or send me out a replacement one. I was on the phone with them for 12-15 minutes. Each minute I worried more and more that it was a fraudulent scam call. Whatever the last question they asked me, it screamed "FRAUD" to me so I hung up. I don't think I gave them any sensitive information that they didn't already have. They were trying to send me text notifications to allow them to access my Google Pay account for what they said was to disallow any attempts at fraud in the future. It didn't make sense. If it doesn't make sense, and I'm a reasonably intelligent person, then it's not true. Luckily I finally caught on that I was being scammed and I immediately called my bank on the REAL number on the back of the credit card and reported the whole thing to the REAL fraud department at my bank. I gave them the phone numbers of the calls that I received and texts that I received. That account has now been permanently closed. Whew! I immediately went in to check my old GooglePay account which I haven't had for 5 years and closed it down (I thought it already was closed). But I'm sitting here shaking at how close I was to falling for this scam. It seemed to legit and real but something kept nagging me that it didn't feel right. I'm sorry that it took me 15 minutes to figure it out, but I did finally listen to my gut and hung up on them and took immediate action. OMG! Has anything like this ever happened to you?