And I thought it was safe
Tuesday October 17th 2006
by Paul Armstrong
So, I had a major scare. I was ... sitting and reading in the only quiet place in the house, and I got a phone call from Radio Shack. "We wanted to confirm your $600 order yesterday". "Um. What? I didn't order anything" "Ok, well, do you have a card with #### as the ending number?", "No.", "Well, it seems someone has access to your account". Shit.
And so my planned day of immaculate work ethic turned into a lesson of credit card fraud. I called the number Radio Shack provided to find it was our bank, not our credit card company; and that they had depleted my business account. The bank had already stopped further debits from being withdrawn from the account, but not before the damage was done. So 2 hours later -- several phone calls to our other credit agencies, to the police -- it seems that all will be fine. My money returned (at some point) and maybe the guy will be caught (but we all know that this won't happen).
I think I might not ever buy anything online again. Welcome to the world of cash.
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