Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day......

Okay so this morning I posted on the train how my identity was stolen along with about $5000 from my checking account in the past 2 days.... I spent the day at the bank, filing a police report, and tomorrow I will fax my reports to Telecheck, and the 3 major credit agencies.... what a pain in the arse!!!!!!!  The police officer said it's almost impossible to catch these people, which really burns me up!!!  If there is a bright side... at least I caught it early before it got worse.  I think there are more checks to come.  They didn't steal any checks but they got my account info and DL# and are using that.

Thanks to all those that sent me well wishes today!!!

Then I got a call from Dr. L's office and they had to reschedule my appt for today.  So now I won't be going until the end of July....  Big Bummer as I was really looking forward to that!

Here's hoping tomorrow is a much better day!!!!!!!

Paige, I'm sorry your day sucked so bad.  What a nightmare all that filing and reporting must be.  I pray you get everything back that's owed to you.

Hey, Sean had an appt with Dr L today too~maybe he wore the poor man out!!  (sorry, Sean, I couldn't resist).

Thanks Stephanie...  it will take a week or two to get all my money back but I will get it back so that's good!!!  The biggest pain in the arse is going to be with collection agencies as I'm sure there are more transactions!

Okay Sean is gonna be on my sh** list now!!!!!!!  (just kidding.... maybe)

Wow!  Your weren't kidding, today WAS a super bad day for you.  I don't even know what to say.

Did you lose your purse somewhere?  How did this happen?

Lisa D. Mtz.

No nothing was stolen per say...  I think what happened is that when I went to Walmart Friday morning to get groceries someone from inside (an employee)  took my account and DL# info and used it somehow.  Because they knew to start off with the next check #... and they were fast because the first check was written on Friday.  They were all recorded as electronic checks.  You hear about these things happening to other people... and you just never think it will happen to you!!!!

PAIGE-a similar thing happened to a co-worker of mine over the Christmas holidays -AT WAL-MART-the culprits bought a bunch of TVs, etc. She knew it had to be info thru her checking acct because it was the only thing she used her married name on. It was determined it WAS an "inside" Wal-Mart thing, and NOT at the "store level", but on down the corportae line somewhere..apparently it happens ALOT. Fortunately everything was "made good" in a realtively short time, but my friend told me she felt very "violated" for a long time. Big ((((HUGS))) to you!!!

That is EXACTLY what I think happened!!!!  The purchases were made all over the state of Texas in a 2-3 day period!!!

Paige.....so very sorry that you are having to go through this.    I had my purse stolen about 10 yrs ago at a wedding reception.    My purse is NOW part of my Body !!!  LOL   As for the PS appointment....all things worth having are worth waiting for...trust me....the PS is worth it !!!   Good luck on your appointment with Dr. L.


Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

Although I was upset about rescheduling the appt.  in the big scheme of things it was probably for the best!!!  I didn't sleep at all last night and I was tired!  It will happen all in good time!!!

Any idea how they got the information?    Could it have been someone close to you or who has access to your home or purse? 

 That's why I NEVER trust online banking, for one thing  ..  Afraid someone could hack in somehow and get my info and withdraw money.   Also be sure to shred all credit card applications, bank statements, etc. that you get in the mail.  If you use a check card, you might want to consider getting also one of those prepaid Western Union Visa or Mastercards that you can do "loads" on, and use only it when paying in restaurants or ordering merchandise online, esp. from sources that have access to or require your 3-digit security code from the back of the card.   Awhile back, at the time of our Houston Event, it was reported that some restaurants servers and hotel desk clerk employees in the Houston and S.A. areas were involved in a theft ring, where they would get access to the cc #s in the regular course of business and misuse them to buy things online with, or even make up phony ccs with that same # to use.