I appreciate
that you went to some trouble
to clone my Visa.
You used my card in
Fat Eddie's Phat Rims Shop
in San Diego.
To spare your blushes
and for the sake of your own
criminal career,
Next time you might like
to choose someone with credit
of more than 12p.
I don't mind people stealing my credit card and seeing if they can get away with using it (well, okay, that might be an exaggeration). What irks me is when they don't have class. The last time I was defrauded, it was used to buy £200 worth of equipment in Dixons. In Scunthorpe. DIXONS? SCUNTHORPE?! I was righteously mortified.
As bad as that could have been, I found it extremely amusing.. mainly because I would be in the same boat if someone took mine :P
When something similar happened here at rashbre central they bought a Shawn the Sheep backpack with the ill gotten gains.
rashbre
My debit card cloners spent over £1,000 in IKEA, purchased over £1,000 worth of travellers' cheques, bought several pairs of Faith shoes, and topped up their mobiles. IKEA even rang to check if it was really me authorising a transaction this large. Noooo, I screamed down the phone, but they went ahead and did it anyway. What really annoyed me was the way anyone in authority just shrugged their shoulders and sighed, well, it's just too much effort to actually investigate this and catch those responsible, so we'll just give you the money back and you can pretend it didn't happen and that we didn't do anything to stop this. If only I didn't have this damn thing called a conscience and knew how to clone debit cards...
Possibly the most infuriating thing about the phenomema is that they could lead your bank manager to believe that you lead a more interesting life than you actually do. And can see him in the branch on a monday, scratching hs head thinkin, "Why's he buying womens underwear on Easter Island?, it's the first time he's left the country in 4 years..."
Its fustrating how the cloners also seem to live more intersting lives than the vistims. Have you ever been in San Diego, or considered getting some blinging alloy wheels? I can imagine bank mangers up and down the country asking themselves why a OAP clients have travelled to South East Asia only to bulk buy cheap electrical goods.
Miss Jac,
Although completely off topic, you are the only "blogger" that I actually converse with on occasion so I'll pose this question to you.
Is there a way to view multiple blog pages on one page when they are updated, livejournal style?
Yeah. Happened to me too. Oddly enough, it began in San Diego, and ended in Los Angeles. They stopped at every gas station between here and there --
Oh. The Horror.
you are a bigger fiddler than me.
oh yes you are
It is true. It is because I am Artistic and is absolutely not a writing displacement activity.
Ouch... This reminds me of the time I was mugged and my credit card went down the pub for lunch, to the cinema and on a shopping spree to Paris, without me of course. Those were the days when I still had credit cards.