Re: ID theft

oh dear.  and that's why I don't do on line banking - too hackable (is that
a word?)

On 11/18/09, Jesse Bell <justjess01@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nice.....
>
>
> On 11/18/09, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI
> <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
> > Good thing the bank was suspicious and caught it quickly!
> > We had an issue once, suddenly we started getting weird charges to our
> > checking account. We didn't realize that criminals could make fake
> checks,
> > without even our names on them, and the bank would cash it as long as it
> had a
> > valid account number. So we closed the account, opened a new one, did the
> > whole police thing and got reimbursed. All was well for a couple weeks
> and
> > then it started up again. What the @%#, we thought, we closed that
> account!
> > Well as it turns out our credit union was being "helpful". They got the
> bogus
> > checks coming in on a closed account, they looked up the account number
> and
> > noticed we had opened a new one - and they charged the new account! And
> that's
> > why we don't use the credit union now...
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
> >
> >
> > From: james singer
> > Sent: Wed 11/18/2009 9:46 AM
> > To: Garden Chat
> > Subject: [CHAT] ID theft
> >
> >
> > Well, it happened again. Somebody in Texas, the bank said, wanted to
> > share my credit cards. The bank caught them in the process and shut
> > down all my credit/check cards, and deleted my on-line banking ID and
> > password. So I got to spend 3-4 hours on the phone straightening that
> > out.
> >
> > Inland Jim
> > Willamette Valley
> >
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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