Any good ideas..
 

On what to do once I find out who just racked up $1500 worth of fraudulent charges on my Credit Card. Just found out now, among other things, a $650 shopping spree at Lowes in Georgia (seeing as I'm in MA right now, that's a trick).

The CC Company in question had just put my card on hold when I found out. Needless to say, I'm coming up with various gory things to do to these *@)$@&$@)&@, but the thousand papercuts and dipping in lemon juice isn't good enough for em!

Wow...

I don't know, but I personally would add at least a little bit of sulfuric acid into your torture plans.

OUCH!!! That sucks man. How bout you cut open their skulls and feed them theiir own brains. Not very original but it works.

Re: Any good ideas..
 

Seems like $650 from Lowes would probably be on a major applaince. I don't suppose this guy was stupid enough to have the thing delivered to his house?

I always liked the idea of using tapcons to nail them spread eagle on the ground, then cut off their eyelids and wait for the sun to come up. Hopefully its a nice clear day and they will have time to be in pain beore their eyes pop from the heat and the real pain hits.

this happened to me once (well, it happened to my then-girlfriend).

I take GREAT comfort in the fact that these types of crooks (credit card scammers) will get away with it for a while, but will inevitably get caught and end up spending enough time in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison to adequately quench my thirst for vengeance.

In my line of work, I deal with a great number of credit card frauds - most of them are not very bright (very few can pronounce the name on the cards, even if it's something simple like "Kevin"). My favorite was the guy who called up and told me his name was some chicks name - can't remember the name, but it was so obvious that he had stolen some woman's card but didn't realize the name he was badly mispronouncing was a woman's name. I couldn't stop laughing at him - normally we have to follow through with the orders to make everything seem normal, but I was laughing so hard I had to hang up.

I'm calmed down a little bit..

Unfortunately my thirst for vengeance has not.. have a new leader inthe clubhouse for what to do..being lowered feet first into a pot of boiling oil? :)

I heard SkyDog say something about a new oven;)

I dont know what to do with all this lumber.

The attaching of rabid Crawfish to his sack is a time tested torture method.

Happened once to my family - my mother's purse was stolen out of her car - less than two hours later, the woman was caught, 40 miles away. How, you ask?

Because she tried to use my mother's credit card at a grocery store (yes, 40 miles away), in the exact checkout aisle that our next door neighbor happened to be standing at. Oh, he's a cop. :D

while i've never had my card stolen, what HAS happened to me on two different occasions (and this may chap my hide even more than traditional theft) is a waitress adding an extra 0 to my tip amount b/c, i guess, she figured we were drunk and by the time the statement came i either wouldn't notice or remember or i would figure it was reasonable. but when a $50 tab with a $10 tip shows up on your statement as $150 total, that's hard to miss. obviously i got it corrected and never had to pay it, but it pisses me off the lack of morality in some people - this is theft, pure and simple, just like any other.

and while i'm on my soapbox, on another occasion, this time at bennigans, i was with my mom and pops, and we had quite a few beers with dinner, and i think our tab was around $100, and the con-artist waitress brought us our tab, ringing up an extra c-note, and we paid it at first, but then we looked closer at it after she left, and pops called it out to her, and whaddya know - she had the extra cash ready immediately in her front pocket to give back without question - she didn't even look at the tab - a blatant sign she knew what she was doing. :mad:

bryce, did you call her out to her manager?

no, probably should have in retrospect, but instead we just took the tip off the table and left her nothing at all. so her shenanigans cost her $20, in effect, but then again, she probably duped some other folks that night and made up for it.

Well, better than nothing I guess.

I'll never forget the year my wife's new bank card was stolen from our mailbox... three weeks before Christmas. They emptied her bank account in a matter of hours, and we didn't suspect anything because we never knew her card had been delivered to our house. She tried to take out money for the kids' lunch and saw she was $1500 overdrawn.

It took us almost a year to get it straightened out.

I say chop off their balls and feed them to a wig.

I say be nice and forgiving to them. On a different note, I just got a great new grill at Lowes. :)

(kicks Grant in the groin repeatedly)

Grrr :)

That really sucks.

Don't you think Michael Vick has enough money ;)

Here are a couple of links to Clark Howard's website. It has some information about identity theft, how to prevent it, and who to call.

To report fraud

Info on identity theft

Hope it helps!

That sucks dude!!! That would really piss me off if that ever happened to me...

Trust me, I'm still pissed off. Fortunately, looks like the charges will be disputed, and they've already turned it over to their fraud investigator. I hope whoever it was makes one more purchase ;)

:D

Seriously though,

I also had my card stolen. Happened to me last year, actually. Went to buy a new charger for my cell phone, paid with my visa debit card, the sonofabitch clerk kept my card then took me for an $800 shopping spree in about 2 hours before i realized it was missing. What I do know is this-- you definitely won't be responsible, especially since of course your sig won't match. I believe the c.c. company has 45 days to issue a provisional credit to your acct. pending the completion of the investigation...

Dola,

And to keep in line with suggested ways to handle the dickhead who used your card...I'll borrow a suggestion from Full Metal Jacket...Just unscrew their head(s) and shit down their neck..