identity theft

[Lifesgreat]

What a pain in the neck!

Last fall, I started receiving cookbook club books, Scholastic Phonics Club books and Scholastic Disney ornaments-none of them ordered by me, but billed to my card. Other stuff that didn't ship was a video game and "How to Sell Things on Ebay" book. Scholastic said the stuff came to me b/c the dirtbag diva (considering what was ordered it MUST be a female) didn't have my three digit code from the back of my credit card, just the front numbers. W/o the back numbers, I guess most places don't ship to an address that is different than the billing address.

The police think it was stolen from the internet, I think it may have been stolen when I bought something at biking event (number taken manually on a paper). It is all cleared up now-I got to keep the 8 cookbooks, Scholastic wouldn't credit my account until months after I returned the stuff to them-at their expense. It all worked out, but was a hassle.

The part I still don't understand is how the "How to Sell Stuff. . ." people knew my phone number in order for them call me 10+ times a day to get permission to ship charge for shipping the book to me. This was before I knew the # was stolen and I kept insisting I didn't buy anything. . .

Hang in there!