Just Bitchin’ about: Identity Theft
Tonight my husband went to pick up dinner (hey…I called, ordered and arranged to have it picked up, the way I was raised that’s called, “making dinner!”). He comes home, gives me a look (the one that says, “ummm, I think you might have gone shopping and spent money you know you shouldn’t have but in order for me to appear ‘cool’ about it I better play this the right way.”) As his head is turned ever-so-slightly he informs me…in the shape of a question (when the voice inflection at the end of the sentence is a bit higher than it started) that when he went to use his debit card (for an account that only he has the debit card for…I simply log in and transfer directly to my account:) and that his card was denied for dinner! I can assure you that while I can absolutely over-order, that there is more than enough in this account to cover a take-out meal! So I go over to the computer (secretly relieved that I knew I didn’t do anything this time) and log in to our account and we find that there are 4 sep charges over a 3 day period to Sprint! We don’t even have Sprint! (Again, I’m secretly relieved that I’m not guilty). So, completely confident that I’m not in the wrong, I call the bank. The lady was very nice and informed us that they will indeed put the money back and investigate the issue. She was “shocked and disgusted” with the depths people go to in order to steal from others. She kept saying how sorry she was (I was all too happy to speak with her….because, I had done nothing wrong!!). She even won me over when she observed that these “people spend so much time stealing that if they put forth the effort into getting a job that they put into committing fraud that they wouldn’t need to!!”. I was now doubly happy…not only did I not spend one thing I wasn’t supposed to, I also was talking to a kindred spirit. Seriously, I was about to ask her if she was local, we were going to go to Starbucks tomorrow. However, she blew it when she got a bit too personal and “went there” with me in regards to her 2 boys, ages 15 and 8. Both opposite, one is very responsible, the other will never drive. I was waiting for their bowel movement schedule but she completed her report before I could hear about it, but they do go to Montessori school and are very bright. Of course they are! The asshole who stole our account is pretty bright, too. In fact, I think us honest, hard-working, tax-paying people are the dumb ones! What the he’ll do these schmucks know that we don’t!? Seriously, no one knows our ATMcode (sometimes I don’t even know), we don’t leave the card out. Someone literally had to copy the number or find the slip at a restaurant, and figure out to use the card
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