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Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh
Ovid writes "Being a bit of a hypocrite, I sometimes whine about privacy in my blog. I do, however, try to be careful about not letting anyone get information about me they shouldn't and I rarely, if ever, use a credit card online. This is why I was surprised to find out one morning that identity thieves had racked up thousands of dollars one two of my credit cards. By early afternoon, I caught them and the police arrested them."
For those who haven't seen it (Like anyone in this crowd wouldnt have seen this), I'd suggest reading the P-P-P-Powerbook Story as a great compliment. These stories of Scammers getting Scammed never get old.
> and I rarely, if ever, use a credit card online.
Don't you know whether you do or not?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Similar experience here. Someone ran up $2000 dollars worth of condoms on my credit card. I turned all the information over the Mounties and by the next day they found the guy. I didn't even have to testify because he confessed, so strong was the evidence. I tried to kick him in the balls, but they wouldn't let me. :-(
If you just send your full name, birth date, address, social security number, credit card numbers with expiration dates to securemyidentity@gmail.com, we will monitor your credit record and make sure that you never have to worry about your good credit record ever again.
No joke. I would have gutted those two like pigs. Throat to groin. Wouldn't have thought twice about it. Not any issue at all.
Ovid, you are a sane man.
* hey are you Ovid from Perl Monks & the Perl Monks Seti team?
This
Calling the cops three times on your cellphone: 68 cents.
Driving to Denny's at 96 miles per hour: $1.10 in gas.
Seeing identity-thieving bastards hauled off in handcuffs before your very eyes: priceless.
There are some things money can buy. For everything else, there's adrenaline and instincts.
he's happy today but just wait until tomorrow when a group of street punks beat him and take his dungeon master's guide. :(
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
Oh, the irony! A registered member of slashdot being called a coward by someone whose username is...oh.
My digital rights don't need management.
(Score:-1, Pussy)
On a bet, I stole an English muffin from the kid's to-go bag. I can vouch.
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
Looks like this guy caught his own criminal. Unlike the rest of you lazy slobs.
Sigs are like bumper stickers.
>>Someone ran up $2000 dollars worth of condoms on my credit card.
Good god, he must have had a big weekend planned....
http://request-header.info
now go upstairs and help your mom with the dishes.
Cash can be stolen and used easily. Cards can be stolen and used, but you can get the money back. Big difference.
Pay by value is much better than pay by reference.
If you lose cash, you lose the value, but no pointer escapes the transaction. If you pay by reference, you leave a trail of pointers around increasing the risk of someone dereferencing your wallet.
"Good god, he must have had a big weekend planned...."
Heh. At my high school they decided to deal with the teen pregnancy problem by handing out condoms. The water balloon fight was epic.
"Derp de derp."
Is what type of person steals 2 credit cards, racks up thousands of dollars in charges. Then proceeds to order breakfast from Denney's? Come on the meal is free live it up a little.
I have to agree. I buy gas with my CC now so I dont have to empty my wallet. I make a concious effort to say "FUCK" when I spend the money just so it does not go by to easily since the price is incredible. Just trying to get the same feel I would when I do empty my wallet..
The water balloon fight was epic
It must have been as you obviously didn't have any other use for them?
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
"It must have been as you obviously didn't have any other use for them?"
Yeah right, as if you should be throwing stones.
"Derp de derp."
So did they tell you who you are? (Other than the number 2.7182.)
Someone ran up $750 of lottery tickets on my card; three people were arrested a year later.. don't know how they caught them, but at least one of them apparently has quite a record.
Lottery tickets. Sheesh. Criminals are dumb, I guess. They could have actually bought something they'd use...
It's a testament to the ease of such exploits that you were able to accomplish it all without the obvious use of a dictionary or college education...
:-/
If you'd benefitted from those, you may have been unstoppable.
Sometimes I weep for the state of our society...
Anyone who's balls can stand up to $2000 worth of condoms is not someone I would attempt to kick there. They'd probably grab your foot and break it off.
I HAVE CUBIC WISDOM THAT TRANSCENDS AND CONTRADICTS ONE DAY GODS
I think I see why your school has a teen pregnancy problem...
>I've lost $0 in credit card theft, but dealing with the attempts has cost me quite a bit more in time: more than 100 times as much
So, you've lost $0 then?
You're absolutely correct. I'm a named, faced, mid-thirties guy trying to feel important :)
The phrase "tax on the stupid" seems to fit quite well in that statement.
Frink: Nice try floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.
I'm guessing either Iraq, or the USA
Superb, sir. Superb. In future, I will take efforts to safeguard my bank account against unauthorised dereferencing.
Most people don't put condoms on their BALLS, Einstein.
One word for you: Gah!
I've spent the last 3 weeks ~12 hours a day working to complete a project for one of my classes in C++... and when I read your post I thought my subconciousness was leaking...
This is not a sig.
I don't really have anything of value to add to this thread--I just wanted to see if I could get the nested comments scroll off the end of my screen...
There's no place like
yeah, a girl in our AV department did that as a senior prank my sophmore year, she took the air compressor and blew up a couple and tied them to her car and drove around. she had taped them all underneath the seats in the auditorium (the senior class has a class called "Current Issues" that's supposed to simulate college lecture style classes, mandatory for seniors, the class sucked -alot-)
On the topic of credit card signatures:
I like Shamu.
(Spoiler: Circuit City gets it right at the end)
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
"It's a lot like if your car is stolen. Just tough shit, as far as they're concerned."
No way. I had my car stolen in LA, and even though they found it the cop told me that they had detectives working in shifts to find the thieves.
So what you're saying is, Canadians can't aim very well?
I feel really sorry for him. What a waste of time.
/. at 1 AM and you say I waste time?
You're on
Tee hee.
"The pie shall be cut in half and each man shall receive.....death. I'll eat the pie."
Bunch of freaks.
Now excuse me, I'm going to play CounterStrike:Source on my brand new Intel 3.73GHz Pentium 4EE Processer with 2MB cache, my 10k rpm Raptor SATA drives (raid 0 for speed), 2 GB of PC4800 memory and ATi FireGL X3 256MB GDDR3 memory!
I'm going to cream the competition! Nobody will be left alive -- I can't wait!
My favourite condom story:
During the war the Russians ran short of condoms and they asked the British government to ship some over on the next convoy.
Churchill ordered that the London Rubber Company should ship a consignment of extra large condoms over but mark them all as "extra small".
The story maybe apocryphal but it's well known Winston had a well-developed sense of humour and didn't like Stalin, so I tend to believe it :)
The Machine stops.
My 180 pound bloodhound, Flop, who can smell an unfamiliar person anywhere near my property and is gun trained is added protection. Wow, you Americans even train your dogs to use guns. ;-)
"You superiour intellect is no match for our puny weapons" - The Simpsons
Hmm, I think we need a poll: does Barry Cryer read slashdot?
Yes
No
I'm sorry, I haven't a clue
Barry Cryer is Cowboy Neal
I don't know who Barry Cryer is, you insensitive clod!
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