I also could be that the first card got declined for some stupid reason, and as you kept trying cards with the same name the scrubbing picked it up as a possibly stolen. As if some one lost their wallet, and the finder of it tries hammer the cards! Similar thing happened to me in New York recently, put the wrong pin # in twice the 3rd time it was just totally refused, I had to call the issuer next day to straighten it out!
