You can't be me you silly identity thief!

[themadscientist]

Some mutha f*** er got my credit card and thought he would help himself to some goodies it seems. Well, that gravy train has derailed chump!

Click bank eh? Yeah, you're about to get clicked by my bank you ***holes.
Home Depot? I'm sure you have a tool on the shelf that you can use to staple your a** back together after I rape you.

s*** just got real son. That card is for car parts, lap dances and gummy bears, not whatever the hell you are buying. Not even big charges either. If I swiped a card number I'm going crazy. There would be Russian bishez on planes flying to Japan to service my depraved desires. I'd rent a GT-R with the extra insurance so I could crash the f***er into a pole, not a p****-a** charge for $160 at the friggin Home Depot, you tard.

Even identity thieves are underachievers these days.

[Eikon]

This just happened to me a couple weeks ago.

Some lowlife in Valdosta, GA spend $750 over 4 days at random places like Tractor Supply, Shoe Carnival, gas stations, etc..

I was very happy with Chase Bank.. They called me an asked me if I had been to GA recently. I said no, and we reviewed the transaction record. They deleted those transactions from my record without a question, then cancelled that number and sent me new cards.

What's interesting to me is that the credit card theft was not just the theft of the name and card number. It wasn't internet transactions. Somehow they made a new physical card with my number on it so they could use it in person in stores.

I wanted to call these stores and the police down there.. but I just didn't have time and lost interest.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

^That's typically how it goes with me. It's happened 2 or 3 times so far. My CC company just calls and asks a few simple questions, then deletes the charges and sends me a new card. Sometimes they try to get me with an "expedited card fee", but I just tell them I didn't ask for that and they delete that too.
I almost wonder if any of this is actually some technical systems fault, or the CC company messing up, and they just say someone tried to steal your identity.

[Dattebayo]

The way someone gets a physical card is with those scanner things. They make them so they clip onto ATMs at the card slot and then transmit to a nearby waiting car. Made so well that you can't tell it's not part of the ATM. Or, if said person works for Diebolt or another ATM company, they can stick their own hardware in there to store reader codes also.

[szh]

The way someone gets a physical card is with those scanner things. They make them so they clip onto ATMs at the card slot and then transmit to a nearby waiting car. Made so well that you can't tell it's not part of the ATM. Or, if said person works for Diebolt or another ATM company, they can stick their own hardware in there to store reader codes also.

Yeah, they are getting very sophisticated. I always check every gas station card scanner carefully (as best as I can, under the circumstances) before I use them.

A recent issue with Lucky Supermarkets here in the SF Bay Area was probably an inside job - there was a physical device/card installed inside the "pay for groceries with your card" systems that would record the numbers and pins and transmit it to the perps, etc.

Z

[themadscientist]

Cash, problem solved. That medium of exchange is becoming an anachronism, though. Both retailers and government want you using that plastic, be it credit or debit. f*** both of you, I got a fist full of wrinkled and torn washingtons here that says you aren't tracking my buying habits and you aren't charging me for the privilege of using my own money!

[alms24sebring]

^ absolutely agree.

If you were that guy where you saw a few extra digits extra to your printed balance by accident, would you spend it. It does happen.

[nissangirl74]

It's happened to us a couple of times. Our card company is so-so about contacting us. The last time it happened, they didn't even call, they just de-activated the card. They got an earful on that one. I seriously doubt that will happen again.