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Posted on 09/14/2004 11:08:57 AM PDT by Cosmo
Subj: Your Kerry Kit Has Shipped: Order #989044 Date: 8/30/2004 4:25:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: moveon-help@list.moveon.org To: md683606@aol.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Your Kerry Kit is on its way. Look inside the DVD case for interesting charts, articles, and a bumper sticker. Dear MoveOn member, We just wanted to let you know that your Kerry Kit order has shipped via USPS 1st class mail. The kit comes in a case containing a DVD, bumper sticker, materials, and articles. We hope you find it useful and informative. If you haven't received the Kerry Kit in the mail by Friday, September 10, please send an email to: orders@kerrykit.com . If you email us, please include the shipping information (name and mailing address) where the Kerry Kit was to go. Your order number is: 989044. Sincerely, --The MoveOn PAC Team
VERY IMPORTANT: Credit cards have a great deal more consumer protection than ATM or debit cards. You are liable for only $50 if your credit card is stolen and misused. Your entire bank balance is at risk if your ATM or debit card is stolen and misused. Consumer credit laws have not caught up with technology. Most banks will make you whole if your ATM card or debit card are stolen and misused, but they are not legally obligated to do so.
Cool, you mean for $5 they e-mail you all that crap. Maybe we should all sign up. I bet it costs them $30.
Frankly, i'm shocked they only charged $5.00..
Make sure the thief is charged with theft. No matter if it's misdemenaor.
You mean someone was using your money and they only gave 5 bucks? That's funny.
I never sent them a dime; I've never been to their site because I'd vomit, and don't want them to know my IP address. Methinks that they're trolling, and I didn't bite. I haven't a clue on how they got my email address. Something's smells very fishy, like Ole Crusty...
A relative stopped some ID thefters in the act, before they were able to do any serious damage. Closed a bank account, filed police reports.
Several days later they struck, tried to do an ACH withdrawl against the bank account. Nothing there.
As if that weren't enough, 6 months later a new ID thefter called *this time with the bank account numbers* and trying to get some updated info. My relative started laughing at him, then called the police.
Apparently these people pass info around within their criminal enterprise.
You, a total stranger, have just made a big change in our banking habits. Thanks for sharing your story.
Correct. While overseas, an ATM dinged me for about $200.00 which it didn't deliver, and then went out of service a few minutes later (a Citibank machine in a third world country).
It took 6 months and many calls to get the money back.
I had no idea Bill Clinton lurked around on this site.
I had no idea Bill Clinton lurked around on this site.
We don't use ATMs because I can't keep track of withdrawals and it caused me a big problem once. I kept getting over drawn notices from the bank and thought that I was making ATM withdrawal and forgetting to deduct. It went on for about six months, I thought that I was losing it and finally closed the account, at which time the teller informed my husband that the bank had discovered that another woman with the same name had been making withdrawals from my acct, using blank withdrawal slips. The same woman was also renting videos in my name and using the health insurance of another woman in town with the same name.
I would also suggest you file a police report.
While that may seem a bit drastic to some. If your ID has been stolen, you may not discover the full extent until YEARS later.
This is particularly true if the thieves have obtained credit cards with a false adress. Years after they have long disappeared you may be surprised with a lawsuit.
With the police report you will be able to provide this as evidence that you do not owe the debt and that your ID was stollen. This is not the end all be all, but it does have the necessary element of establishing diligence on your part when you have no further information.
In related news, at their annual convention Peru's Shining Path Guerillas have voting overwhelmingly to endorse the candidacy of John F. Kerry.
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I've heard thiefs are using "Picture Cell Phones" to take a picture of your Credit Card at Registers and using that information !!!
Be careful out there.
We got to complacent and it bit us in the A**
I wasn't clear-I was referring to snail mail. I sincerely hope it wasn't the Swift Vets selling my name and address, as so many others do.
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