Post by docharber on Nov 27, 2009 22:57:13 GMT -5
Wdnesday night (before Thanksgiving) I'm in line at the Sam's Club checkout. Everything is totaled and I swipe my credit card. It's rejected. Meanwhile, my wife is at Sears and Old Navy with my daughter and her card is lso declined. She has to use our debit card which is on a local account with very little in it. not knowing what our balance is, I hold off paying until I can reach my wife on the cell phone. I call and get her voise mail,. Eventually she calls me back and I go ahead and use the debit card for my Sam'a Club purchase. I called the credit card company while i was waiting for her to call me back. It seems bmy account was "compromised" and the account suspended. They (Chase) had called and my son answered- he told my wife it was aomething about credit card fraud and she assumed they were trying to sell us some of their credit protection crap. Not until we had our cards xdeclined did we realize the call wasn't just another d--- solicitation. So, we have only about $45 in our local account and no credit card on thanksgiving. We scrape up enough loose cash to pay for Thanksgiving dinner out at the local Cracker Barrel and we're done. We didn't have a credit card on Black Friday and and have had to scrub a hounding trip to Georgia this weekend becasue of it. Our account in an out of state credit union was not very helpful as we had no major credit card for ID if we wrote a check for something. this morning my wife had to drive to the local credit union and deposit cash from the other account to give us some local cash/ATM access. Anyway, we have no credit card until Monday when our new cards with new account numbers may arrive. We have to change our automatic charges to a new account number and change our Patypal and Amazon.com account numbers, etc. It wouldn't be so bad if we had not had to do this twicw before.
I have to think there is a way anyone using my account number on line could be traced- through some sort of IP address directory, cross referenced to a computer registry. tht would be crossreferenced to a street address by ISPs , etc. Then we could catch those poster children for planned parenthood who keep stealing from the rest of us online.
So, what I'm opening up for discussion is, wehat is the most fitting punishment for sucgh offenders? Should their mouse-manipulating hand be chopped off in the public square? Should they be stripped of any right to an identity of their own, banned from the electronic marketplace and from accessing the benefits of social works programs like SOcial Security, Medicare, or any form of credit? Should their names and addresses be posted online as for sex offenders? Should they be branded on the forehead with a letter F for fraudster? Maybe an old fashioned chain gang is the an option. Maybe they should have to wear an electronic device that will disable any computer they attempt to operate. Maybe we whould just smear them with blood and meat juices and chain them to a tree then release a swarm of angry yellow jackets. Maybe they should be slowly lowered into a pool of lava, roated alive very slowly. Maybe they can star in the next SAW movie as themselves as Jugsaw's victim- for real.
Come on, don't deny me my fantasies. i jusrt hop my next cfredit card statement doesn't have any charges ffrom a Jewish singles dating service, etc.- as happened last time. Any body want to make any creative suggestions about what to do with these scumbags?
mark H.
I have to think there is a way anyone using my account number on line could be traced- through some sort of IP address directory, cross referenced to a computer registry. tht would be crossreferenced to a street address by ISPs , etc. Then we could catch those poster children for planned parenthood who keep stealing from the rest of us online.
So, what I'm opening up for discussion is, wehat is the most fitting punishment for sucgh offenders? Should their mouse-manipulating hand be chopped off in the public square? Should they be stripped of any right to an identity of their own, banned from the electronic marketplace and from accessing the benefits of social works programs like SOcial Security, Medicare, or any form of credit? Should their names and addresses be posted online as for sex offenders? Should they be branded on the forehead with a letter F for fraudster? Maybe an old fashioned chain gang is the an option. Maybe they should have to wear an electronic device that will disable any computer they attempt to operate. Maybe we whould just smear them with blood and meat juices and chain them to a tree then release a swarm of angry yellow jackets. Maybe they should be slowly lowered into a pool of lava, roated alive very slowly. Maybe they can star in the next SAW movie as themselves as Jugsaw's victim- for real.
Come on, don't deny me my fantasies. i jusrt hop my next cfredit card statement doesn't have any charges ffrom a Jewish singles dating service, etc.- as happened last time. Any body want to make any creative suggestions about what to do with these scumbags?
mark H.