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Old May 03, 2006, 02:26 PM
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Just got a call from our charge card company, fraud alert department, some SOB, some how got our acct. number and went shopping, grrrrrrrrrrrr!!
Five thousand dollars for tires? Maybe truck tires? and a 63 dollar charge for flowers !!!!!!!!!!!
I am spaced about now, to think and wonder how did these low life,scum bags grt the acct. numbers, I can imagine there are easy ways, eh? The tires were purchased in FL, the fraud alert dept. said the ship to was different than the bill to, well, yeah that would be obvious, but didn't they track the ship to and trace this??? Same with the florist, that investigation shouldn't be hard, duh?
Oh, I am livid, I just had to post this to scream out of desperation, and anger too, now our acct has been frozen and we are being issued new accounts. Fortunately the credit card company alerted us right away, they also said they are involved with investigations on a rash of these occurences.
Ten years ago, when dining at a party, my husband had given the waiter the card for the liquor bill, when charge bill came in the mail, we saw 69 dollar phone charges to some carribean island, problem was I hadn't looked over the bills for awhile so the credit company said they couldn't do anything, but always in the future look over you bill besides sending in the payment, that I do.
This is different cause it was caught before I even receivd a bill.
Oh man, I just want to scream, bad enough I am at my wits end with being a caregiver to my mom, but now this??

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! and Sobs too. Like I need more horror and stress in my life !!
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Old May 03, 2006, 02:30 PM
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I am so sorry! I worry about credit card fraud every day ... it is so alarming when it actually happens to someone!!!

You have every right to feel all you are feeling.

I am so sorry that I don't really have anything really supportive to offer you.

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Old May 03, 2006, 02:41 PM
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(((((((((DE)))))))))))) I am so glad they caught it in time!!
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Old May 03, 2006, 02:48 PM
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So sorry to hear about this. Your card company is going to eat the charges, right?
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Old May 03, 2006, 02:53 PM
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Old May 03, 2006, 03:06 PM
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I'm so sorry to hear about that Like I need more horror and stress in my life !!. My aunt went through a similar situation a few weeks ago when her cards were stolen and all her money withdrawn from the bank Like I need more horror and stress in my life !!. The bank has repaid her back, hopefully your credit card company will do the same. It must be so upsetting, my aunt found it tremendously so Like I need more horror and stress in my life !!
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Old May 03, 2006, 03:54 PM
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((((DE)))) So sorry this happened. I know how angry you are.. it has happened to me once before. Hopefully the credit card company will get to the bottom of it soon. It's awful how some people can be like that.... low enough to do just about anything..
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Old May 03, 2006, 05:22 PM
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Now I know why I don't use credit cards! Sorry this had to happen to you...and repeatedly no less!

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Old May 03, 2006, 05:32 PM
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Like I need more horror and stress in my life !! Like I need more horror and stress in my life !!

That's horrible. I am so sorry that someone felt the need to steal from you (or that anyone feel the need to steal from anyone else).

I hope that your credit card company has a system in place so you can get back your money.
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Old May 03, 2006, 05:41 PM
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Flowers and tires = quick, decorative and easy flower gardens

Set tire on ground arrange flower plants in inner circle.

These flower gardens can be found in landscaping for car dealerships, garages and even in residential lanscaping.

But agree with you they could have used it for lots of other things. Glad they caught it in time to prevent even more purchases.

Id be screaming too. Hope it works out for you.
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Old May 04, 2006, 01:58 AM
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((((((((((Darkeyes)))))))))))) I am so sorry this happened to you! Things sure are getting scary. Like I need more horror and stress in my life !!
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Old May 04, 2006, 02:35 AM
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OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I'm so sorry!!

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Old May 04, 2006, 03:39 AM
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(((((((((((Darkeyes))))))))) that is just awful.. Grrrrrrr at folks who steal....... double grrrrrrrrrrrr
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Old May 04, 2006, 05:15 AM
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((((((((((((DE))))))))))))))),

Unfortunately, I have been there done that with my Mother when she was dying of cancer, & it was the home care RN that I caught on the phone applying for a credit card as my Mother with all the necessary information that she had gotten my mother to tell her. After I caught her & tried to get the information from the lady on the phone, the RN cut the phone cord. Several checks were filled out from the ones my mother had filled out ledgelably, & then a few weeks later, fraud from the credit card company caught someone using my Mothers credit card (that had been stolen & I hadn't caught that). She did that the day I went into the police & filled the report against her. My fear was so horrible since she had OD'ed my Mother on morphine, I had no idea what she might do to me to keep me silent......the fear is somewhat under control now, since she hasn't showed up in my life since then, but for some reason even realizing that nothing will happen since the DA dropped the case due to lack of evidence, fear doesn't go away that easily. To top that off, she stole all of my Mothers valuable jewelry....things that would have been handed down, with a lot of meaning behind them.

I know it is a horrible to realize that someone can have that kind of access to our personal information....I find it very scarry & not really sure how to protect ourselves. We can go to extreames, which at times I feel that I would rather be safe than sorry again, but then I feel like I am over reacting.

I wouldn't ask for more horror in your life......it seems like that is all to close to reality too. I hope you can get everything straightened out, & able to protect yourself...but when you don't know what you did to have that problem, it isn't that easy to know what to do to protect yourself. There is alot of information on ID theft on the internet, I ways to protect yourself by checking balances on line. I just went to our counselmans meeting at the senior center last week about ID theft & elderly abuse....telling everyone ideas on how to protect yourself against these things. Unfortuntely, it seems like there is some new way they come up with to successfully pull off ID theft, that someone hasn't come up with.

The worst part is that I feel like I have to think like a criminal in order to keep 1 step ahead of the people who are attacking us. I hope that you are able to get through all of this & it is great that the credit card companies are aware of typical usage that indicates theft. I know when they caught my mothers card theft, they told me that one usual pattern is for the person to purchase gas at the pump to see if the card is still valid. Then they immediately go & make a huge purchase, then they go back & purchase something like gas again to make sure it wasn't caught. They have been able to notice some patterns that are used.

Hope you will be ok & hopefully nothing more has been stolen from you, it is good to get your 3 credit reports also after this & see if there is anything else that shows up.

Good luck,
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Old May 07, 2006, 02:14 PM
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((((((((( Roe ))))))))) & (((((((((( Deb )))))))))

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