That's right. I'm limping after becoming the victim of identity theft. Just as I was about to post a blog with LOTS of fun new pictures from this past week, I got an unwelcome surprise in the form of an unauthorized transaction on my bank account. THIS comes AFTER getting a shredder for my birthday from the parents! (I HAVE been using it, Mom and Dad....) Long story short: A person who obviously doesn't love Jesus opened a paypal account with my information and has charged over $1100.00 to me. SO...now I deal with the aftermath. Cancelling my card and getting it reissued, living with no debit card (or money) for a few days, filing a fraud claim, and hoping the dentist tomorrow will take a check...
Sheesh.
6 comments:
FALSE. Not a shredder. A Schrute Identify Theft Protector. Use it well. That is all.
Jamie! THAT SUCKS! My Mom had the same thing happen to her. Paypal and everything... These guys took $10,000 from her though! She got it all back, thank God.. but still. it sucks. I'll keep you in prayer - hope it all works out!
Hey there... I had that happen to me as well - to the tune of $10,000 for, get this... Facial recognition software purchased by a "security" company in France... and if you know how I feel about France, there is a sick irony in that whole thing..........
The really wierd part was it happened 4 weeks AFTER 9/11 and I was really worried. . . Didn't want any Fed's knocking on my door. So I filed all the required paperwork, claims, etc.. It ended up costing me a ton of my time and $50. That is what my credit card company said I was on the hook for... I figure that given the alternatives, I would gladly pay the $50 and have it over with. I will pray for your sanity and that God protect you from anything else like this.
um... you are still going to publish the photos - right?
Michael had Identity theft, but he didn't know it because they used their own credit card, but his SS#. He didn't find it until it was sent to collections and right when we were trying to buy the house. It still comes up sometimes, but it's the worst. So so sorry about that. We need a night to chat about your weekend!
xoxo
A gym that I used to belong to (now closed) had an employee who stole their CC database. I found this out when someone hit up my card for a $300 charge at a Subway in Albuquerque, and $500 in cell phone purchases and accessories in El Paso.
Luckily, my CC company was totally cool with it and I didn't owe a dime, just took about an hour of my time to straighten out.
Oh, and then they caught the girl and I gave a statement to the cops about it approximately 6 months later. Happy ending.
Hang in there, most of the time everyone's totally cool with fraud recovery, especially if it's really obvious that things are outside your normal spending patterns.
That happened to one of my customers a few weeks ago. Did you get it taken care of?
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