Stop the Presses
Jun. 8th, 2005 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grrgoylBefore I continue with my popular vacation series of posts, I have to write about this. I just got a call from Amazon.com (who I now love with all of my heart instead of just most of my heart) asking if I had purchased a laptop computer from them today for $2400. I absolutely had not, and so it is that I enter the ranks of the victims of credit card fraud. Of course I called my bank immediately and put a lock on the card. They will issue me a new one and hopefully that will be the end of the matter.
The only way I can think that it happened was just before leaving for my trip, I received an email from PayPal requesting me to update my account information or else they would suspend me. I was linked to a site (all very official-looking, mind you) and filled out every field until I got to the PIN number. PayPal doesn't need my PIN number and I forwarded them the mail. They quickly confirmed it was a scam and I thought THAT was the end of the matter.
I have to wonder, is it worth it? If I were to steal someone's number, I certainly wouldn't make some big huge purchase that threw up warning flags immediately to everyone. I would buy small things at common stores so the victim would just dismiss them as memory lapses on their part. But of course small, discreet purchases are hardly worth risking jail time. If I were going to steal from bank accounts, I'd do it like the guys in Office Space and set it up to take pennies from everyone. And if this person is clever enough to steal my number, shouldn't they be able to get into my bank account and see that I have no money?
Whatever. I just hope the cops are halfway to this fucker's house by now.
The only way I can think that it happened was just before leaving for my trip, I received an email from PayPal requesting me to update my account information or else they would suspend me. I was linked to a site (all very official-looking, mind you) and filled out every field until I got to the PIN number. PayPal doesn't need my PIN number and I forwarded them the mail. They quickly confirmed it was a scam and I thought THAT was the end of the matter.
I have to wonder, is it worth it? If I were to steal someone's number, I certainly wouldn't make some big huge purchase that threw up warning flags immediately to everyone. I would buy small things at common stores so the victim would just dismiss them as memory lapses on their part. But of course small, discreet purchases are hardly worth risking jail time. If I were going to steal from bank accounts, I'd do it like the guys in Office Space and set it up to take pennies from everyone. And if this person is clever enough to steal my number, shouldn't they be able to get into my bank account and see that I have no money?
Whatever. I just hope the cops are halfway to this fucker's house by now.