ChiKat, did you ever figure out how she got your info?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Apr 20, 2006 11:38:43 am PDT #2561 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Apr 20, 2006 11:39:13 am PDT #2562 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's so crazy, ChiKat! Apparently they were going to go to the address where "my" identity thief was having stuff shipped, but could someone really be that stupid? We'll see. I hope I get to talk to the cops! So far, I've just had a postal inspector.
I am having a momentary school-related I RULE moment, so I thought I'd better share. I was all fucked up trying to make this data say stuff it just wasn't saying, and I stumbled across really good backup for excluding some of it, and now it's saying all kinds of fun things!
Also I just told two women to shut up in the computer lab, and one of them was all, "The sign says no eating or drinking, not no talking! This isn't the library!" But they are quiet now. Awesome.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2006 11:40:29 am PDT #2563 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's a creepy random coincidence, with the two attempted identity thefts being caught by alert store personnel (or do I mean personal?). And the stores both have names starting with N.
Okay, that part's less creepy, more random.
Do you know what triggered the store people to doublecheck?
Jesse - Apr 20, 2006 11:48:27 am PDT #2564 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do you know what triggered the store people to doublecheck?
"Unusual activity," apparently. Lord knows what that means -- the $800 in stuff? The fact that they were delivering to an address that's never been attached to my name? Es mysterioso.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2006 11:52:08 am PDT #2565 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've been called once about unusual activity that was actually me. Not sure what the activity was, though. That's lost in the mists of time.
The time someone did jack my identity, I was the one who found out (because Friday night my checking account was empty), and even after I presented the cops with their delivery address, they didn't care.
I did get the money back, at least.
ChiKat - Apr 20, 2006 11:54:21 am PDT #2566 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
ChiKat, did you ever figure out how she got your info?
Not yet, the detectives are still investigating. My purse was stolen about 3 years ago and they think it may stem from that.
Do you know what triggered the store people to doublecheck?
It was unusual activity for me, too. She didn't have my Nordie's card, but had the cashier pull it up using her/my driver's license and my SS#. The cashier saw that I had NO activity on my card, and now here "I" was trying to buy 2 watches for over $3400. The cashier alerted the store's fraud dept. who called me at home and that set the ball rolling.
To bring this full circle, the cops found a business card in the chick's purse with my SS# written on the back of it. The business card was from someone who worked at Neiman Marcus.
Sue - Apr 20, 2006 11:55:25 am PDT #2567 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Vortex - Apr 20, 2006 11:56:12 am PDT #2568 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
d they may need me to appear at the hearing, but don't know yet.
probably waiting to see if she pleads guilty. Otherwise you have to show up and say "yes, I am me and I have been me for ___ years"
To bring this full circle, the cops found a business card in the chick's purse with my SS# written on the back of it. The business card was from someone who worked at Neiman Marcus.
ooooooh! Maybe you can work this into free stuff!
Jesse - Apr 20, 2006 11:59:22 am PDT #2569 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
To bring this full circle, the cops found a business card in the chick's purse with my SS# written on the back of it. The business card was from someone who worked at Neiman Marcus.
Creepy! I do totally think it's all employees in a crime ring.
ChiKat - Apr 20, 2006 12:00:18 pm PDT #2570 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
probably waiting to see if she pleads guilty.
Actually, with all the evidence they have on her, they're waiting to see if it even goes to trial. They suspect there will be some sort of plea and no trial.
Otherwise, yep. I'm me, she's not. I've always been me, she never has. I have never met her so there is no way I could have given her my information. She stole it. She's a thief.