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[TxDoc]

Welp, I just got off the phone with my credit card folks 'cause I made a ten dollar donation to Mike Bentley online for his site with all the Illinois and Midwest bike rides... and bingo! right afterward, 2 charges for 400, 800 bucks for musical instruments.
Will take a week for the stuff to work its way through... but just so happens that yesterday I activated a new credit card... I'm thinking of (snork, *after* this little road trip ) getting off the credit grid entirely and being a "cash on the barrelhead, son" person.

Bad week here too!

Last Friday my bank called to verify some strange charges for like $300. We compared lists and there were like 5 fraudulent charges made exactly that morning. Strange because I had purchased some repair parts in the morning using Paypal which should be safe.
Turns out that someone used my credit card # to purchase newspaper subscriptions in Florida (and of course that's not where I live!) and, can you believe it, online dating! oh well, on second thought I guess it makes sense that a thief cannot find a real-life date and needs to go online...
Anyway, I had to waste half the day taking care of this nightmare. I really hope the police find those people, whoever does this kind of stuff should be put away for a while!

[kermit]

The credit card theft is crazy. I just had another card hacked for musical instruments and online clothing. This is my forth card in about two months. I have turned into a cash mule. Pay day I go to the bank and get money out. Everything is paid in cash. I am actually consolidating debt and closing alot of credit card accounts. It's so bad here, that the police dept. has a cap on charges of $10,000, anything under that doesn't get investigated. I did get a call immediately from the card about the charges so that helped.

[Aggie_Ama]

Last year our account got stolen from Paypal (DON'T STORE NUMBERS) and we spent $400 making calls from the UK. Seeing as how I don't have a passport I wonder how I got to England? After some calls, a notarized form and a new account number Citibank erased all the charges.