Dear So and So

[Eden]

Eden, is this a new wallet theft or the one that you told us about some months ago?

Same one - she used my phone for several weeks before I'd gotten around to replacing it (its a prepaid and I ordered it off of the internet, so it took a few days to get to me too). I was very much surprised to find out when I activated the new phone that I could keep my old phone number and even have the minutes transferred (what was left at least) since the web site expressly said minutes from lost and/or stolen phones were not refundable. I also had not been in hurry because of this policy - had I known that it was not correct, I'd have replaced it much quicker, before she had a chance to use up a lot of my minutes.

For the first week or two I got a lot of calls from businesses looking for her to pay them (most of which I had no hesitation to informing them that she was a fraud and a thief and had given them the number from a stolen phone....) and from her delightful friends too.... most of it tailed off after that. Listening to all of the voice mail her loser friends left was pretty amusing.