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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.
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.
(Score:-1, Pussy)
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."
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?
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.