Re: guess who just got his identity stolen?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Sun, 25 May 2008 16:48:46 -0500 (CDT)
From:                   Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>

> Me.
>
> Not that it helped them much, they got through two transactions before the
> credit card was blocked.

I've had my card data grabbed about half a dozen times over the years (although 
one was simply proactive due to the TJX thing.  One single purchase I made at 
Winners!)

(One was memorable: we know the number was stolen from a gas station where I 
made a gas purchase outside the hospital on the day Number One grandson was 
born.)

> I travel so much and get so many unrelated credit issues such as blocking 
> because I'm in a country I wasn't at yesterday that my card is closely 
> watched.

Mine must be watched reasonably closely.  I dunno how they do it, since my 
purhases must be weirdly close to patternless.  However, the last time it happened, 
they phoned me at home a day or two after the first false transaction, and 
correctly identified which one was mine and which false on the same day.

> The funny thing is the card company called a phone I nearly never answer 
> and asked for "Mr. or Mrs. Evron". Without waiting i said: "thanks, not 
> interested" and hung up. They called back and for some reason I answered. 

On that last call, being the professional paranoiac I am, I called the credit card 
company back to confirm that they had made the call ...

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