I believe there is more potential exposure to limiting your hot-carding to notices from the actual cardholder than to allow joint account holders to alert you on their behalf. If you had refused the notification from the first owner and actual unauthorized transfers occurred because of your refusal to hot-card, you'd have a bigger mess to clean up.
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John S. Burnett
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