The Rant of Our Discontent

[NikLR 13,232]

some ####### stole my credit card information... bank tried to tell me they tried to contact me about it.. (uh no...)

 

Makes me want to change my CC company honestly... at least I noticed and called THEM!  They're reversing all the charges though so that's good.

I haven't used the thing in over 10 days!

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

11 minutes ago, NikLR said:

some ####### stole my credit card information... bank tried to tell me they tried to contact me about it.. (uh no...)

 

Makes me want to change my CC company honestly... at least I noticed and called THEM!  They're reversing all the charges though so that's good.

I haven't used the thing in over 10 days!

Who do you bank with BTW? I have had that happen to my wife last year but it was to our joint checking account where most of the bills came out of. Luckily I had only caught it after day 2 when they had already racked up $400 worth of stuff on our account. You can tell they had started piling on to see how much they can get in before it's stopped and luckily I caught it not the bank. My wife was very distraught about it and I had to inform her that this is the name of the game here in the USA, people are always trying to steal out SH** and don't worry about it because they will just issue us new cards.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

17 minutes ago, NikLR said:

some ####### stole my credit card information... bank tried to tell me they tried to contact me about it.. (uh no...)

 

Makes me want to change my CC company honestly... at least I noticed and called THEM!  They're reversing all the charges though so that's good.

I haven't used the thing in over 10 days!

 

This happened to me a few years ago.  I think I posted about it on here.  They charged about $800 in one sitting a Walmart. I caught it a few minutes after the transaction... called the credit card company, who then called the police, and they ended up catching the thief - someone who had been working in a Japanese restaurant who skimmed a bunch of cards.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

2 minutes ago, N-o-l-a said:

 

This happened to me a few years ago.  I think I posted about it on here.  They charged about $800 in one sitting a Walmart. I caught it a few minutes after the transaction... called the credit card company, who then called the police, and they ended up catching the thief - someone who had been working in a Japanese restaurant who skimmed a bunch of cards.

At my last job I was given a Citi charge card to use to make purchases that we needed for our job. Since we were all government employees those cards were consistently being hacked and used else where by those people. It happened to me 3 times in 5 years on those cards. I remember I was sitting at my desk at work one day when CITI calls me up and says they want to verify a few charges so we go through the process. They proceed to ask me about charges I have supposedly been making in London at the time while I am sitting in Los Angeles. So I informed the lady that "I had not been to London in several years so those charges are not mine at all".

[TBoneTX 46,089]

4 hours ago, SAT said:

I literally cursed her out.

 , man.

Mrs. T-B. knows, but is sometimes situationally reminded, that no one molests our stuff lest we go completely aysheep, grrr man.

[TBoneTX 46,089]

2 hours ago, NikLR said:

on the positive side I'm down to Many.2 lbs.  Only Many.2 lbs or Many% body fat.. whichever comes off first.  LOL

Last Post on Page and unread, Niki-B. ma'am.

However, should you have lost weight recently, then foto of shadow-of-former-self Niki-B. now, see slim Niki-B. ma'am.

[TBoneTX 46,089]

1 hour ago, cyberfx1024 said:

But a good leader/manager will learn from their mistakes and strive to not repeat them in the future. You are human and not a machine thus you are liable to make mistakes.

^^ This, Niki-B. ma'am.  Forgive self, see ma'am.

"Don't blame me for not being perfect!  After all, none of us is human!"

[TBoneTX 46,089]

1 hour ago, Russ&Caro said:

I bet it's cheap to retire in Arkansas. Move there and be neighbors with Stretch.

Two musical words to our ears, ahhhhhhhh man.

The neighbo(u)rly Ontarklar will be happy to serve you fried/broiled/roasted chicken for daily lunch & dinner, ingest you man.

Edited March 28, 2018 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 46,089]

We are about to reveal a State Secret, see man.

 

[ahem, harrumph, drum roll man]

The key actions for Laundry Day success are to (1) start early, (2) be present for the immediate end of each load, and (Many) be prepared to zoom into action at the end of each load, si man.

 

We, the Thread Laundress, hath spoken, hear hear we man.

[Russ&Caro 1,549]

Speaking of dealing with banks over credit cards...

 

I'm usually pretty good about not losing things like cell phones, wallets, keys, etc. Ran into a bit of bad luck, though, when a week ago my wife and I were on vacation in Barcelona and sometime within the space of about an hour of parking a rent a car and going in and out of two establishments, I lost my wallet. We backtracked the whole route a couple hours later but found no wallet. Luckily my wife had an independent credit card and her joint account debit card so we weren't left high and dry in the middle of Europe. Canceling cards from Europe is no easy chore but I was lucky enough to cancel them all before any unauthorized charges showed up. I was only out $10 US and a 20 Euro note. Pretty lucky.

 

Barcelona was great. We enjoyed our time there. We will return, maybe during semi-retirement in a few years. Would be nice to rent an apartment for a couple of months and see it all.

 

 

[SAT 9,609]

3 hours ago, Russ&Caro said:

I bet it's cheap to retire in Arkansas. Move there and be neighbors with Stretch.

Her chicken will crapp all over my car...

[SAT 9,609]

3 hours ago, NikLR said:

on the positive side I'm down to 136.2 lbs.  Only 6.2lbs or 5% body fat.. whichever comes off first.  LOL

Fat pic now...

[Ontarkie 14,449]

14 minutes ago, SAT said:

Her chicken will crapp all over my car...

Haha no but the darn trees would!

[NikLR 13,232]

5 hours ago, cyberfx1024 said:

Who do you bank with BTW? I have had that happen to my wife last year but it was to our joint checking account where most of the bills came out of. Luckily I had only caught it after day 2 when they had already racked up $400 worth of stuff on our account. You can tell they had started piling on to see how much they can get in before it's stopped and luckily I caught it not the bank. My wife was very distraught about it and I had to inform her that this is the name of the game here in the USA, people are always trying to steal out SH** and don't worry about it because they will just issue us new cards.

It happened once to my bank card for my joint account (diff bank.)  Some purchases were suddenly made in MI... I live in CO and have never been to MI.  I caught it fast though.  This time purchases were made I think in Las Vegas since two were for the Palazzo Hotel.  There was a Tmobile bill that hadn't even shown up yet. ($360... )  I only noticed because my card was decline for a purchase I was trying to make.  At least they turned the card off since it seemed unlike me to make those purchases.  I use a Canadian CC company since they report to US credit bureaus but used my Canadian credit history for the card.  I could probably get a US based one at this point but this one is easy to pay since I have an account there too.   

 

5 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

 

This happened to me a few years ago.  I think I posted about it on here.  They charged about $800 in one sitting a Walmart. I caught it a few minutes after the transaction... called the credit card company, who then called the police, and they ended up catching the thief - someone who had been working in a Japanese restaurant who skimmed a bunch of cards.

My card has been sitting in my basement in front of my TV for a week so I dunno how it was taken.  Could have been Amazon.  I'm leaving my card on places though except the gym so that the jerk that stole it gets a declined message. 

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

5 minutes ago, NikLR said:

 

My card has been sitting in my basement in front of my TV for a week so I dunno how it was taken.  Could have been Amazon.  I'm leaving my card on places though except the gym so that the jerk that stole it gets a declined message. 

 

It was a few months after we had eaten at that restaurant that it showed up.  The issuer didn't catch the fraud because we actually shop at that Walmart from time to time.