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I am so fed up with scammers! Despite all the sophisticated technology and everything you see in the movies, where the FBI can locate criminals with a modicum of information, these sleezebags cannot be caught.
My father told me a story of how he was probably the first victim of identity theft back in the 80s. Somebody stole his waller and went to banks in FL to get a mortgage! The FBI was completely indifferent to his complaint as they are to the majority of complaints they receive today, whoch I realize are numerous. Nevertheless, there has to be some kind of crackdown on these criminals.
I got a phone call a few months ago that I owed money to the IRS and they were coming to arrest me.
When I sell online, Craigslist in particular, I ALWAYS get emails from foreigners who generously want to overpay me for my goods, if only I’l email my name and address, so they can write me a check and collect their items at a later date.
I was selling a car once and went as far as ro send pictures after several email exchanges, only to finally receive that same type of response. Okay, no problem, I’ll leave it running in the driveway for you and I’ll send my SSN too, in case you’d like to make some other big purchases!!
This is not only immensely frustrating but these people have zero respect for anybody’s time or intelligence.
When I went to the ER in March, there were some shady looking people in there. A couple of guys kept circulating around the room but didn’t seem to be patients. The other day, I got a fraud call from my bank that unauthorized charges were attempted. It could have been coincidence but is it possible the men in th ER had some type of scanner under a coat that picked up credit card numbers? Who would suspect anybody there? Or, maybe it happened though the hospital’s wifi. It could have happened anywhere but because there is never any closure with these typed of crimes, every incident intensifies paranoia. I have enough on my plate without having to become aggravatted and go crazy changing all my passwords, calling and cisitng banks, changing all of the other necessary information and worrying that it will happen again. Has anybody else had experiences like this?
My father told me a story of how he was probably the first victim of identity theft back in the 80s. Somebody stole his waller and went to banks in FL to get a mortgage! The FBI was completely indifferent to his complaint as they are to the majority of complaints they receive today, whoch I realize are numerous. Nevertheless, there has to be some kind of crackdown on these criminals.
I got a phone call a few months ago that I owed money to the IRS and they were coming to arrest me.
When I sell online, Craigslist in particular, I ALWAYS get emails from foreigners who generously want to overpay me for my goods, if only I’l email my name and address, so they can write me a check and collect their items at a later date.
I was selling a car once and went as far as ro send pictures after several email exchanges, only to finally receive that same type of response. Okay, no problem, I’ll leave it running in the driveway for you and I’ll send my SSN too, in case you’d like to make some other big purchases!!
This is not only immensely frustrating but these people have zero respect for anybody’s time or intelligence.
When I went to the ER in March, there were some shady looking people in there. A couple of guys kept circulating around the room but didn’t seem to be patients. The other day, I got a fraud call from my bank that unauthorized charges were attempted. It could have been coincidence but is it possible the men in th ER had some type of scanner under a coat that picked up credit card numbers? Who would suspect anybody there? Or, maybe it happened though the hospital’s wifi. It could have happened anywhere but because there is never any closure with these typed of crimes, every incident intensifies paranoia. I have enough on my plate without having to become aggravatted and go crazy changing all my passwords, calling and cisitng banks, changing all of the other necessary information and worrying that it will happen again. Has anybody else had experiences like this?