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Imponderables- Christmas Already?

POSTED BY: nvghostrider
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:15
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NVGHOSTRIDER

Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:27 PM

Yay Nevada Day!!!

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

ZEEK

Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:38 PM

Well that was interesting. I got an email today about a fraud alert on my credit card. Of course I don't trust email. So, I called the bank and sure enough it was real. Somebody in NY bought two plane tickets for around $4,000 on my card. Yikes! Glad we have legislation protecting us. No charge to me.

Now I just have to figure out if I had any auto payments on that card for anything. I probably need to file a fraud alert with the credit rating people too. Bah! I guess it could be $4,000 worse though.

MSA

Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:19 PM

Hey that just happened to me two weeks ago Zeek... stupid person in Brooklyn NY was at Target trying to use my card. They blocked it and I had to wait for a replacement, but all in all glad nothing was stolen:)

OK seriously considering the blocking thing.. how often do you think these scammers actually get away with anything?

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

KELKHIL

Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:36 PM

Quite a bit actually. Happened to me a few months back. Person charged up a ton of stuff on my card. Buy. com called me when said person tried to order some stuff and ship it to a different address than the one I had listed. Saved my ass.

Filed all the paper work needed to recredit my account and get a new card. Even had Buy. com rep ready to help catch him. Was told by the police that I could file a report if I wanted but since the culprit was across state lines all they would be able to do was issue a bench warrant in case said asshat ever came to my home state. They do not extradite for credit card fraud.

Dood is just lucky that Buy. com was not allowed to give me his address or I just might have drove to his house, threw him in the trunk and delivered him to the Cop Shop Batman style!!!

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ZEEK

Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:49 PM

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Originally posted by MsA:
Hey that just happened to me two weeks ago Zeek... stupid person in Brooklyn NY was at Target trying to use my card. They blocked it and I had to wait for a replacement, but all in all glad nothing was stolen:)

OK seriously considering the blocking thing.. how often do you think these scammers actually get away with anything?

I don't know but I just read about the fraud alert stuff and it sounds like it could be more trouble than it's worth. Like if I have that turned on and do ever decide to buy a house they can actually increase your interest rate do to the added processing time and hassle. Way to punish people for trying to reduce fraud. Sheesh.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Saturday, October 30, 2010 7:29 AM

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Dood is just lucky that Buy. com was not allowed to give me his address or I just might have drove to his house, threw him in the trunk and delivered him to the Cop Shop Batman style!!!

I might pay a little cashy money to see that.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

ZEEK

Monday, November 1, 2010 3:54 PM

What a happy Halloween. The Saints took down the Steelers. Good times.

Also hilariously my waitress at the hottie waitress restaurant was my neighbor. The fact that I'm not at all interested in her mean "bad waitress day" It also doesn't help that her bf/husband/whatever is huge and scary.

MSA

Monday, November 1, 2010 5:01 PM

Yikes Kelkhil... glad you got it stopped. HUGS
I was super grateful to my credit card company for being so alert.

Aw Zeek sorry about the hottie waitress fail

NV oooh maybe we should all join up and make a Justice League style vigilante group who "returns" credit card fraud felons to the offending state

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

ZEEK

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 3:58 PM

I r voter.

Everybody else do their civic duty today?

ZEEK

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 8:46 PM

Now I got my flu shot too. I'm loaded up with stickers describing things I did today. Though I had to have it pointed out to me that my voter sticker is in spanish. oops.