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GORDON 
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Posted on: Apr. 09 2010,12:48 |
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Got a call last night from a collection agency asking when I was going to pay for the $2k in cell phones and Blackberrys I bought in Douglasville, Georgia a few months ago. The person had a fake ID and used my SSN, with my same birthday but 15 years younger.
In spite of it being Georgia I'm sure TROY knows nothing about this. Mmm hmmm.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Apr. 09 2010,12:50 |
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Had that happen once. Â Someone in California jacked my CC number. Â Took a bit of time to sort that.
EDIT: This wouldn't have anything to do w\ the military personnel records on DoD laptops that get stolen every now & again, would it?
Edited by Malcolm on Apr. 09 2010,12:50
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GORDON
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Posted on: Apr. 09 2010,12:52 |
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Credit reports are on the way to see if there is anything else that has been done with my identity. AT&T, the company from which they bought the phones, is already investigating the fraud. Collection agency has dropped it as fraudulent, referring it back to AT&T. Got a fraud alert on my credit. Supposed to file a police report when I hear back from AT&T with the results of their investigation.
Not much I can do right now but wait.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Apr. 09 2010,12:55 |
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Shit, it's almost time to get a new name & SSN.
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"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
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GORDON
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Posted on: Apr. 16 2010,15:31 |
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Credit reports and things have been drifting in. So far the AT&T phone thing is all I see... but there were a few "Inquiries" at other companies. I wonder if something hasn't caught up to my reports, yet. There was something on there from "T-Mobile." I'm not a customer.
Also got a letter from AT&T. They said they determined I did get frauded, and are removing all traces of this incident from credit reporting companies. So good.
Credit lock is still in place.
Looks like I get to go file a police report next week.
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Troy
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Posted on: Apr. 16 2010,18:46 |
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Crack is expensive...
sorry.
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Paul
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Posted on: Apr. 19 2010,06:42 |
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Last month my Kroger credit card was declined at Kroger. I used my check card to pay for groceries and called Kroger Personal Finance when I got home.
It ends up someone charged $1 to iTunes and they flagged that as suspicious activity and locked the card. Evidently criminals do that to test credit card numbers to see if they work.
I have never made an iTunes purchase in my life.
They issued me a new credit card and told me that to dispute charges I'd have to fill out several papers and mail them back. I remember thinking, "I wonder how much money it will cost them to send/receive/process that paperwork?"
I got the new card but never got the paperwork. The iTunes charge never appeared on my statements so I assume they did the smart thing and just canceled it. There were no other weird charges to dispute.
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GORDON
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Another card of mine got compromised. Â Got the bill and there were 3 $50 purchases at walmart.com, and 8 purchases at the microsoft.com store for about $800.... 3 of them were identical purchases of $179. Â I don't know what they were buying, but they bought 3 of them. Â XBox 360s? What's strange is about a month ago we received a box from the microsoft.com store, a headset, that we didn't order, and there was no invoice. I wonder if they were testing the card.
Anyway, the AT&T card people didn't give me any shit, they said they removed the charges and are going to deal with it.
I suspect a credit card skimmer at my local walmart. Â One day my amazon card kept telling me "invalid card" because of the computer chip it has, so I used the AT&T card instead, and then this happened.
Edited by GORDON on Dec. 16 2015,09:31
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Alhazad
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2015,05:31 |
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Gonna report it to their management?
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Troy
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2015,07:06 |
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Still buying crack on Gordo's credit.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Dec. 17 2015,08:16 |
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(Alhazad @ Dec. 17 2015,08:31)
QUOTE Gonna report it to their management?
I don't see them caring.
I remember the day well.... I've used my chipped amazon card at least 40 times, and no troubles. This time it was erroring out, "Chip is invalid" or some such thing... I was telling the old lady that I think her debit reader was broken, because I knew my card was good. She took it defensively, "It isn't my fault, all I can do is what the machine says."
"I know it isn't your fault, I am saying your debit reader appears to be broken because I know this card works, I've used it at this walmart dozens of times. Scores, even." She didn't get the Archer reference... old people are the worst.
"I don't know why you're blaming me, I can only do what the machine says."
Me: *sigh*
"I'll just try a non-chipped card..." and I used this one... and it "worked." And I bet it was also skimmed, which is why the machine wouldn't read my chipped card.
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