kathryn
Cathlete
Seems like several of us are having a bad day, like way worse than a typical "off" day.
Is there some weird planetary allignment or something going on?
I had a bad day, too (not as bad as some, thankfully).
I had my debit card info compromised, and had to spend time at the bank, then at two police stations (both town and campus). No money was taken out of my account, because the first two charges (two separate $1 charges to Napster) were flagged by Napster as fraud, and my bank called me and froze my debit card before any of the charges actually went through. That's the good news.
One of the charges was $180 something from Kohls, which I thought would lead to a name and address (hence my reason for going to the town police station). Unfortunately, it wasn't an order to be delivered, but an attempt by someone to buy a gift certificate and send it to an email account (for a very odd amount : $189.93 or something like that). No info was retained by Kohls because the order wasn't accepted. But when the police called Kohls to follow up, the woman who spoke to him said that whoever placed the order had "a lot" of my information (name, address, credit card number, email...and the officer suggested maybe my social security number as well! But this is all second-hand and a bit of guessing on his part. It freaks me out, though. I just checked my credit reports to see if anything odd is going on.)
I went to the campus police station at the suggestion of the town officer, and when I walked in, the detective I was sent to see (who didn't know I was coming) asked me if I was in the French department, and said he was about to get ahold of me.
Panic!
I imagined some awful identity theft in progress! But it was (by a very strange coincidence) because he wanted to ask me about one of my students (who hasn't been in class for about 4 weeks). (What are the odds that I go to see the detective on the very same --and only--day that he wants to talk to me about something completely different? It was a very Twilight ZOne moment.)
When I told him I wanted to file a report and that I had hoped that the Kohls info would have led to a name and address so there was someone to arrest, he told me about how some students on campus have things stolen, and then don't want to file reports because they "don't want to get anyone in trouble." And often they have things stolen multiple times!! I told him that if I knew who'd stolen my info, I'd 'bust a cap in his @$$" Ever see a police officer burst out laughing? He said he'd never heard a professor speak quite that way before, and that many are very serious. I told him those of us in the FL department aren't as serious as some others, but I hoped he wasn't recording our conversation. He then pretended he was whispering to someone else and asked them "did you get that?"
Now I'm without a debit card until a new one arrives (which might just reduce my spending, so that's a good thing). And I'm p!$$@@ off as heck that people get their jollies stealing from others (and really unnerved that someone got my info..how, I do not know!)
Is there some weird planetary allignment or something going on?
I had a bad day, too (not as bad as some, thankfully).
I had my debit card info compromised, and had to spend time at the bank, then at two police stations (both town and campus). No money was taken out of my account, because the first two charges (two separate $1 charges to Napster) were flagged by Napster as fraud, and my bank called me and froze my debit card before any of the charges actually went through. That's the good news.
One of the charges was $180 something from Kohls, which I thought would lead to a name and address (hence my reason for going to the town police station). Unfortunately, it wasn't an order to be delivered, but an attempt by someone to buy a gift certificate and send it to an email account (for a very odd amount : $189.93 or something like that). No info was retained by Kohls because the order wasn't accepted. But when the police called Kohls to follow up, the woman who spoke to him said that whoever placed the order had "a lot" of my information (name, address, credit card number, email...and the officer suggested maybe my social security number as well! But this is all second-hand and a bit of guessing on his part. It freaks me out, though. I just checked my credit reports to see if anything odd is going on.)
I went to the campus police station at the suggestion of the town officer, and when I walked in, the detective I was sent to see (who didn't know I was coming) asked me if I was in the French department, and said he was about to get ahold of me.
Panic!
I imagined some awful identity theft in progress! But it was (by a very strange coincidence) because he wanted to ask me about one of my students (who hasn't been in class for about 4 weeks). (What are the odds that I go to see the detective on the very same --and only--day that he wants to talk to me about something completely different? It was a very Twilight ZOne moment.)
When I told him I wanted to file a report and that I had hoped that the Kohls info would have led to a name and address so there was someone to arrest, he told me about how some students on campus have things stolen, and then don't want to file reports because they "don't want to get anyone in trouble." And often they have things stolen multiple times!! I told him that if I knew who'd stolen my info, I'd 'bust a cap in his @$$" Ever see a police officer burst out laughing? He said he'd never heard a professor speak quite that way before, and that many are very serious. I told him those of us in the FL department aren't as serious as some others, but I hoped he wasn't recording our conversation. He then pretended he was whispering to someone else and asked them "did you get that?"
Now I'm without a debit card until a new one arrives (which might just reduce my spending, so that's a good thing). And I'm p!$$@@ off as heck that people get their jollies stealing from others (and really unnerved that someone got my info..how, I do not know!)
