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My Credit card was just billed by Moveon.org
9/14/04 | Self

Posted on 09/14/2004 11:08:57 AM PDT by Cosmo

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To: Bittersweetmd

Very strange, indeed. All in one weekend, too. I'm half expecting to receive photos of my credit card from a third-world communist rally, ala the Travelocity garden Gnome.


21 posted on 09/14/2004 11:18:28 AM PDT by Cosmo (There are no memos of mass destruction, no stockpiles, no reconstituted nuclear memo programs)
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To: Cosmo

How did you find out about it so quickly?


22 posted on 09/14/2004 11:18:54 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Larry Lucido
Someone got ahold of my credit card and charged a subscription to the "Girls Gone Wild" web site.

They'll believe that once...

at least thats what I've been told

23 posted on 09/14/2004 11:20:34 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (I'm mad as Zell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!)
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To: Merry

Identity theft is no joke, but your post does remind me of the joke that a guy who was actually pleased when he got his credit card ripped off. He didn't report it because the thief spent less than his wife!


24 posted on 09/14/2004 11:21:34 AM PDT by 1L
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To: Cosmo

Get that card turned off NOW. You are about to be cleaned out.

We get these low-dollar "donations" all the time on the FRN site. Scammers use low-dollar contributions to non-profits to test the card -- to see if a charge will go through. If it does, they manufacture fake plastic and take it into the bank for a cash advance. They will keep doing that until the account is depleted.


25 posted on 09/14/2004 11:21:44 AM PDT by Nick Danger (www.swiftvets.com www.wintersoldier.com www.kerrylied.com)
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To: Rightly Biased
They'll believe that once...

Is "they" the credit card company or the wife? Or both?

26 posted on 09/14/2004 11:22:26 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Cosmo

I wouldn't report it. Sounds like they're spending less than your wife ever did....


27 posted on 09/14/2004 11:23:30 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: 1L

That was Rodney Daingerfield, wasn't it?


28 posted on 09/14/2004 11:23:43 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Both. The wife is more suspicious though....again this is all hearsay
29 posted on 09/14/2004 11:23:57 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (I'm mad as Zell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!)
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To: Bittersweetmd; Cosmo
Are you serious? Did they really end up in Singapore and Chile? This seems very strange.

Obviously the CC info was passed around, perhaps on underground channels on the internet. The one thing it proves is that MoveOn.org types are well connected into the criminal underbelly.
30 posted on 09/14/2004 11:24:08 AM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: Eva

We were out this weekend and our ATM card was declined. We tend to be screw-ups when it comes to keeping tracck ofour bank records (we're alway forgetting about pending charges from utility companies that take their time processing our payments) so we expected that our lack of funds was our own doing and that a simple account transfer was all that was in rder. Then my wife discovered a 2 cent credit from Money gram and began to get suspicious.


31 posted on 09/14/2004 11:24:42 AM PDT by Cosmo (There are no memos of mass destruction, no stockpiles, no reconstituted nuclear memo programs)
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To: Red Badger; All
Two years ago, someone got ahold of our check card #, and used it twice in Europe for small amounts, on to a PETA org. and once to a Save the Childrens fund. Both times were very small amounts (under $5.00) so we didn't notice them until AFTER we had been billed 2 times within a 24 hour period to the tune of almost $5,000.00. Our bank, and the police figured the first two charges were just "tests" to make sure the number was correct and that the account wasn't closed.

We got all of our money back eventually, but we had to freeze our checking account (plus by this time it was almost empty) until it could be proven that we weren't scamming them. All of the transactions took place in Germany and Great Britain, so they were able to prove it pretty quickly.

32 posted on 09/14/2004 11:26:23 AM PDT by codercpc
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To: Red Badger
$5.00 X 1,000,000 people = $5,000,000 !!!!!!

Or one donation from George Soros.

33 posted on 09/14/2004 11:26:24 AM PDT by The_Victor
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To: Cosmo

Please do not take out your anger regarding lefists p---ies on innocent felines!


34 posted on 09/14/2004 11:28:10 AM PDT by brothers4thID (I have knocked on door of this man's soul- and found someone home.)
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To: Nick Danger

We got cleaned out, and have already recouped 80% from the bank. Balanc should be restored by tomorrow, according to the bank.


35 posted on 09/14/2004 11:28:14 AM PDT by Cosmo (There are no memos of mass destruction, no stockpiles, no reconstituted nuclear memo programs)
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To: Nick Danger

See my #32


36 posted on 09/14/2004 11:28:33 AM PDT by codercpc
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To: Cosmo

My credit card was stolen but when I got the statement the thief was spending a lot less than my wife so I just let him keep it.


37 posted on 09/14/2004 11:29:48 AM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: gridlock
And the worst part is, now you are on their mailing list!

Not only that, but your name is being passed around to a bunch of similar groups. I've been flooded with send-money mail ever since I contributed to the Swift Vets. It happens on both sides.

38 posted on 09/14/2004 11:33:16 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Gen. G.S. Patton: There is no soap ever invented that can wash that blood off (Kerry's) hands.)
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To: Cosmo
made a $5.00 donation to Moveon.org.

Are you married? LOL

39 posted on 09/14/2004 11:33:36 AM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Part of the Reagan legacy is to re-elect G.W. Bush))
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To: Cosmo
Lyndon Larouche, part deux?

That maniac got ten to fifteen in Joliet for doing just that. It will be nice to see the executives of Moveon.org right next to James Hairless Trafficant at Allenwood, being forced to listen to his one minute speeches over the man.

40 posted on 09/14/2004 11:34:53 AM PDT by blackdog (Proudly wearing Free Republic pajamas, just to piss off Dan Rather.)
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