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<EFBFBD> The Phone Losers Of America Present <20>
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<EFBFBD> Dabbling in Credit Card Fraud <20>
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<EFBFBD> Written On February 15, 1995 Last Revision on March 28, 1994 <20>
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<EFBFBD> For Informational Purposes Only. We're Not Responsible For Your Stupidity. <20>
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So, you want to be a credit card fraudster? Well, it's not that good of an
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idea because Visa & Mastercard are really getting annoyed at people who are
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screwing them over all the time and they're supposedly in the process of
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re-vamping the validation process and a lot of other things to catch the
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horrbile satanic feinds that use unauthorized cards.
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However, if you really want to give it a try, here's all the info that I know
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based on what I've tried and gotten away with in the past. I never had the
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actual card, just the card number and I improvised on the rest. Also, I'll
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explain how I was busted right here in beautiful Corpus Christi awhile back.
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Obtaining Credit Card Numbers:
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I think the most popular method of getting a credit card number is digging
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around in a dumpster behind a big retail store or some other business that
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uses credit cards so you can find a few reciepts. It's never really worked for
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me, though. I've gotten very few credit cards this way and the few I did get
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were just by chance, nothing I was really looking for. In my opinion there's
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a lot easier ways to get credit card numbers.
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Impersonating Visa:
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This one is my favorite. This is how I've gotten just about every one of my
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Visa/MCs. All you have to do is call up a store such as a 7-Eleven, Tanning
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Salon, Florist, any business that uses a credit card and talk them out of
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their number. Even Burger King will work although they don't get a lot of
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credit card business there. Here's how a typical conversation would go if you
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called a Circle K:
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CRK: Circle K, May I help you?
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YOU: Hi, this is Bill from Visa. I was just returning your call?
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CRK: Huh?
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YOU: I just received a page regarding a problem with your Visa credit card
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machine. Were you having problems there?
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CRK: No, not that I know of. Nobody here paged you. Who is this again?
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YOU: This is Bill with Visa/Mastercard international. When there's some kind
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of an error on your validation system the machine will page us with the
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problem. Did you just have a credit card transaction?
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CRK: Well, I had one about 15 minutes ago...
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YOU: That's probably the one that didn't go through then. Could you dig up the
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receipt there and tell me the exact time that the transaction occured?
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CRK: Hold on...Okay, here it is. I made the sale at 7:43 pm and it was for a
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beer and some chips.
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YOU: Okay, you smelly Circle K guy, I don't need to know all that, just the
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time, you fucking horrid bastard. What was the amount of the sale?
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CRK: $13.94
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YOU: And the account number? It'll be 13 or 16 digits starting with a 4 or 5.
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CRK: It's 4053-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx.
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YOU: And the expiration date?
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CRK: I don't think I should give this out on the phone without talking to my
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manager.
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YOU: Well, your manager isn't there, is he? Besides, the date isn't important
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I got the card number and I can just improvise on the date and cause a
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lot of damage with that alone. Thank you very much and have a nice day.
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It's as easy as that. If you don't believe me, pick up your phone book, dial
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Circle K and try it yourself. After they give you a card number you can say
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something like, "No, that's not the one...Let me have the information off of
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the transaction before that..." and get a second card number on the same phone
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call. My record is three working card numbers on a single call. There's this
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Ammoco in Indianapolis that I used to call over and over every few days and
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get more card numbers and they all just thought it was a routine legitimate
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thing. "Oh, hi Bill! It's you again...Let me get my receipts..."
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The best time to call is in the evening. This is because the managers usually
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work in the mornings and are gone by 5pm and there's a lot of business in the
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evenings which means a lot of credit card transactions. If you call in the
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morning you'll usually end up with a manager and they aren't as likely to give
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you a number as an employee. (But they still do 50% of the time.) You can call
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on the graveyard shift in the middle of the night and talk to the stupid guy
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but usually there aren't many credit cards used late at night and the stupid
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guy can't figure out what you're talking about.
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This will work at about any small kind of place where the cashier is also the
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person who answers the phone. Don't try a big grocery store like Kroger or
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you won't get very far. Tanning salons are a good start. (Dumb blondes working
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there.) Hardware stores. (Dumb hicks that don't know a credit card from a
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table saw.) Auto Service Shops. (You know what THOSE guys are like.) Florists
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get a LOT of credit cards it seems so I stick with them. If you want the
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absolute stupidest people, get the yellow pages of Indianapolis, Indiana.
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That's where I've had my best luck, although your local yellow pages will work
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just as well.
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Working At A Store:
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If you're the guy that actually works at a store that takes Mastercard and
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Visa then you're in for oodles of fun. Usually your machine won't print the
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name of the card owner and the name is always a bonus to have so while you're
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waiting for the printout of the transaction, memorize the name on the card.
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Also if you're allowed, ask to see a driver's license so you'll have their
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name and address.
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After their gone, write down their name and everything you know about them and
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get their credit card number off of the reciept. Do this all day and just make
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sure your manager or the surveilence cameras don't see you doing all this.
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Also, if your business takes credit cards, somewhere around there is a box
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full of old receipts from the pervious months. Grab a few bundles of these
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and you won't have to do any work at all.
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Friends:
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If you have a friend that works in a place where he had access to cards, bribe
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him to give you the numbers in exchange for something else like carded
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merchandise, codes, sexual favors, anything. Remember that getting them from a
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friend would be really stupid. There's the security risk, (can you trust this
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friend really?) and you have to split the profits. Better to just call up
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random businesses and get them yourself.
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Telemarketing:
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This idea came from Agent69 of Phreaks of the Industry. I can't believe I
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never thought of it myself. Find a telemarketing building where they a credit
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card phone orders. Get into the nearby Telco box or the Network Interface on
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the back of their building and hook up a tap. Either a tape recorder or a
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radio transmitter will work.
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Now listen in when they start calling people and when they finally take an
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order write down all the information. You'll have the card number, expiration
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date, name on the card, address, everything.
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Making Sure Your Card Isn't Dead:
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You'll want to make sure you're not wasting your time with a dead card by
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calling the Visa/Mastercard validation service and checking your card to make
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sure it's good. First of all, you have to get a valid merchant number and bank
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number.
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Obtaining A Visa/Mastercard Validator:
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Merchant numbers and bank number are pretty easy to come by. Basically, you
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just call up the business (convienence stores are the best) and tell them
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you're from Visa/Mastercard Authorization or something important like that.
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Then tell them that you need their merchant number. After they give you that,
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ask for their bank number. Employees usually don't think it's bad to give out
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this kind of information. After all, they're not giving out CARD numbers.
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Another way to get a merchant and bank number is to hang around the credit
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card machine in a store and look around the counter and on the machine. Some-
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where taped on the counter or on the machine will be a piece of paper that
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has the merchant number, bank number and the number to call to voice validate
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a card. Write all these down when the clerk isn't looking at you or just grab
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the credit card machine and run out the door with it.
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Making The Validation Call:
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The reason a voice validation exists is so that if the store's credit card
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machine breaks down the employees can call this number to get validation on
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a credit card. You don't even have to sound official or anything. A lot of
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times the person making the call to the voice validator is some idiot gas
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station guy who doesn't know what he's doing so you don't try and sound
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important or anything unless you really feel like it.
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1. You call the voice validator. The number that I've always used is
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1-800-944-1111. If all the operators are busy, you'll get an automated
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validation system. This is actually a lot easier to use.
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2. The lady will say something like, "Could I have the card number, please?"
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Tell her the Visa/MC card number. Then she'll ask you for the expiration
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date so give it to her. If you don't have it, make something up as long as
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you don't use the date 04/83.
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3. She'll now want your bank and merchant number. Read those off to her.
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4. When she asks for the amount of the purchase, don't go more than ten bucks.
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I usually say something like $1.95 for the total amount. (Pack of cigs or
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something.) The reason is, when you do all this, the amount that you give
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is going to be charged to their card. So if you say $123.94 that's what
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they'll be charged. Then when you're making your fraudelent purchase, your
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chances of going over their limit increase. So keep the amount low.
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5. She'll say thank you and you'll hear an automated voice giving you a six
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digit authorization code. This code is useless so don't even bother writing
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it down unless you just want to feel cool.
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I have no idea what this does to the business's credit card inventory. When
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they run the end of the day reports, they might be a $1.95 (or whatever) over
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in cash because of your call. I've always been paranoid about using the same
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merchant numbers over and over because of this so I use different ones each
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time. If you don't get a good authorization code then your card is no good and
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you shouldn't use it. Cross it off and try another one.
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Obtaining A Post Office Box:
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If you're going to do a lot of mail ordering, you need to have a place to ship
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everything. You're best bet is a post office box. Now don't go to the United
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States Post Office because they'll give you an address like "P.O.Box 4161,
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Normal, Illinois..." and mail order companies are wary of sending merchandise
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to post office boxes.
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Instead find a privately owned post office like Mail Boxes Etc. or something
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similar. The address you'll have will be a real street number and address (The
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address to Mailboxes Etc.) and your box number will be listed as a Suite! So
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your address would look something like, "2382 Lloyd Center, Suite 204."
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Doesn't that look like the address to a condo or something?
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The price will vary but will always pay for itself. Usually the average price
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for one of those boxes is around $10-15 a month, sometimes even cheaper.
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Another advantage to the normal U.S. post office is that these private mailbox
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people will sign for all of your Federal Express and UPS packages! Then you'll
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get a little card in your box saying, "Please come to the counter and pick up
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your package."
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You need some I.D. to get a post office box and I'm not going to get into I.D.
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making right now so you'll have to figure out that part for yourself. Usually
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they want a picture I.D. and anything else. Many have taken a photocopy of my
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driver's license (altered) with no problems. ("Yeah, I lost my originals.") It
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would probably be unwise to keep the same box for more than two months. It'll
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take that long for the card owners to figure out that something is wrong and
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for them to stake out the p.o.box and bust you, I would guess. I have kept the
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same box for four months once and nothing out of the ordinary happened so
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maybe I'm just paranoid. We did a LOT of carding on that box too!
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Oh, and while you have this post office box you want to get the best use
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possible out of it so here are some tips outside of credit card fraud to get
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lots of neat stuff to show up at your box:
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o Columbia House and BMG. Need I say more?
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o Book clubs. Go to the library and look in magazines for the different book
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clubs and fill out their cards for your first few selections. They'll send
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you these books right away with a bill. Throw away the bill.
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o Also, fill out subscription cards for a bunch of magazines and check the
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"bill me" option.
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o This is the perfect place to send a bunch of out of state phone books to.
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o Calling Card time! Call up random phone company billing offices around the
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U.S.A. and change people's billing addresses to your P.O.Box. Tell them
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that you'll be on vacation in this state. Then, call back and order a
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calling card for the same person. This is a great way to start a collection
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of all the different calling cards around the United States.
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o Apply for credit. Your P.O.Box allows you to have several names listed on
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it to recieve mail. Use a name of somebody you know who has really good
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credit and start filling out credit card applications in their name and
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your post office box's address. Real credit cards are fun!
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Different Types Of Scams:
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Now you've got your good credit card number and a post office box. What do you
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do with it? Here's a few ideas to get you started...
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Free Airline Tickets:
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This is what I started out doing and is how I got to see a lot of the United
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States. Flying around the world for nothing is quite fun AND you get free
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meals too! The easiest way is to order the airline tickets through a local
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travel agency. Find one that looks good and call it.
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TVA: Scamproof Travel, how may I help you?
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YOU: Hi, my kid had called there earlier inquiring about a trip and I just
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want to go ahead and set that up. He'll be flying up here to Chicago to
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spend a few months with me.
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TVA: Okay, I'd be happy to help you...
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Just give them the information that they want. She'll want the date of travel,
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where you're going and your name, address, phone, etc, etc. It's best to have
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it already planned out on a piece of paper. Write down your "son's" name and
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address and "your" name and address. "Your" name and address will be in the
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city that you're flying to. Also have a contact number in case they want to
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call you. (This can be a telco silent line or a VMB you have set up.)
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TVA: And how will you be paying for this?
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YOU: Well, is it possible to put this on my Visa card?
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TVA: Sure! Could I have that number?
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She'll give you your son's flight number and all that junk. Write everything
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down. To make it seem more realistic I always inquire about the weather where
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she is and make stupid little small talk like all typical grownups do. Before
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you go in to pick up your tickets, call the travel agency and say you're
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having trouble finding the place and could she give you directions. This is a
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security precaution. If there's a problem with the card or anything else is
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wrong, she'll probably tell you. (Or it'll show in her voice.) By the way, if
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you don't like to fly, almost all travel agencies offer Amtrack tickets as
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well. It's the same process to order them.
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If the card didn't work (you went over the limit) then you can either go to
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another travel agency or call back and try another card number saying that
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you're wife must have maxed out the card or something. After you read about my
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must, you'd probably want to try another travel agency. Before you actually
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get on the plane, call the airline (not the travel agency) and confirm your
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reservations. Again, this is a security precaution I've always taken to make
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sure there's no problems. So far there never has been.
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Another way to get tickets would be to call the actual airline and order it
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directly from them. They'll charge an additional $30-$50 this way, but you can
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afford that, can't you? The only problem is that they will almost always call
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the bank that issued the card and verify the information on the card. So if
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you're going to do it this way, use the card owner's real name and address.
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Also, have their phone calls forwarded to you so you can answer their phone
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when the airline calls you back. If you did it right, the ticket will be
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waiting at the counter for you in the airport.
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I would suggest not going round trip. If you take a vacation to Florida and
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while you're there they figure out something screwy's going on and have the
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feds waiting for you in the airport or just cancel the ticket, you're screwed.
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Better to assume that you're going to have to get a new ticket when you arrive
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and if that doesn't work out, use the round trip ticket as backup.
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In some cities it's impossible to get a travel agency to take a credit card
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over the phone from a "father" so you'll have to be sneakier. They want you to
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fax them a copy of the credit card and sometimes your driver's license. I've
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had this problem in Los Angeles, Miami and most of Corpus Cristi. My solution
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was to find another city close by and try flying out of that one. In one case,
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we had a girl we knew pick up the ticket in another state and mail it to us.
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If you've got a scanner and editing program and some fax software, you could
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try faxing that card to 'em.
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Free Internet:
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There's a lot of boards out there that offer internet access with a creidt
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card payment on-line. A few even automatically validate the card while you're
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on-line and give you access immediately. If you're calling locally, divert!
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Don't make direct calls because they might trace, although I think it's harder
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to do that on a ring-down number.
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Free Merchandise:
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Here's where the big bucks are and this is why you made a fake I.D. and went
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out to get a post office box. It's also a good idea to set up a local voice
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mailbox when you do this so that the companies will be able to call you if
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there's a problem with the card and they won't get suspicious about fraud
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because you have a real phone number.
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Dig out all your mail order catalogs. Computer Shopper is the most popular.
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|
Anything you can imagine is available through mail order. Computer stuff,
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clothes, jewlry, houseware, everything. Sit yourself at a pay phone for a few
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|
hours and just go crazy ordering merchandise from different companies, giving
|
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|
the your fake name and post office box and voicemail number. Try not to use
|
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|
the same card for more than two purchases so it'll be less likely that the
|
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|
card will go dead.
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|
The backs of almost any magazine will have ads for merchandise you can order
|
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|
with a credit card. (God, I hope you're not reading Playboy!) Just go crazy
|
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|
ordering things for the next two months. Tell the post office people that
|
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|
you're running a mail order supply house or something lame like that if they
|
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|
wonder why you're getting all this stuff. Order lots of stuff that you don't
|
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|
really even need. You can always sell it or give it to friends.
|
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|
|
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|
Places like Office Max and Office Depot also offer home and office delivery.
|
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|
You can order things from their catalog with a credit card and have them
|
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|
deliver it to your box and the post office lady will sign it for you.
|
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|
Voice Mailboxes:
|
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|
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|
Almost all the nicer voicemail companies will let you order your voicemail
|
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|
service over the phone and give your credit card number. They'll immediately
|
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|
activate your service and send you a paper and credit card statement to sign
|
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|
so it's good to have a post office box for them to send this to if you want
|
|||
|
your box to last more than a week.
|
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|
|
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|
Any company will let you pay in advance as long as you want. So you can go
|
|||
|
ahead and order one year's worth of service onto the card. And don't get the
|
|||
|
little flimsy individual service. Go all out! Get the mega-businessman
|
|||
|
enhanced service with all the toys. You can afford it!
|
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|
|
|||
|
All the VMBs I've done on a credit card have lasted at least two months. A few
|
|||
|
of them somehow get overlooked and last until the service is over with, eight
|
|||
|
months later. (My most recent one actually lasted seven months!) Use caution
|
|||
|
with what information is traded over the VMB. The owners of the service might
|
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|
be listening to all your messages and taking notes of the phone numbers and
|
|||
|
other things left in your box. Not good.
|
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|
Free Miscelleneous Services:
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|
Places like hair salons, detists and eye care will always take credit cards.
|
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|
All you have to do is call them up and say, "Yeah, my son is going to college
|
|||
|
down there and it's about time he had an eye doctor's appointment..." Explain
|
|||
|
that you'd like your son to come in and ask if it's possible for you to give
|
|||
|
them your credit card as payment.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Usually it's no problem. Not only did I get an eye exam last year, but I got a
|
|||
|
free pair of glasses and contact lenses! The hardest to do is get a haircut
|
|||
|
like this. Just about every hair place I've tried won't accept a card over the
|
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|
phone. I'm paranoid to actually go into the dentist. He'll have me strapped
|
|||
|
into the chair and fire up his drill..."Now WHAT did you say your father's
|
|||
|
credit card number was? Hmmmmmm?" I've had nightmares about this.
|
|||
|
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|
Phone Order/Pick-Up Services:
|
|||
|
There's a few stores out there that'll let you order something on their toll
|
|||
|
free hotline and then go into the store and pick it up. So call the hotline
|
|||
|
and order something and say you're sending your "son" in to pick it up. When
|
|||
|
the order is ready, walk into the store and tell them who you are. They might
|
|||
|
want to see your I.D. but usually not. They'll have you sign a paper and give
|
|||
|
you your merchandise.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Before you go in, call them and say, "Yeah, my dad had something shipped there
|
|||
|
for me but I'm not sure where you're located." They'll be happy to help you
|
|||
|
and if there were any problems with the card, they'll most likely tell you
|
|||
|
about them now instead of when you go in to pick it up. The best place to do
|
|||
|
this kind of thing are Office Max and Office Depot. Don't get too expensive or
|
|||
|
they'll want to see the card.
|
|||
|
|
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|
Phone Calls:
|
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|
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|
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|
AT&T decided to rake in even more money by accepting Visa, Mastercard and
|
|||
|
American Express cards to place long distance phone calls. Using a credit card
|
|||
|
has quite a few advantages to using calling cards. Then only thing that sucks
|
|||
|
about it is that it takes a little bit longer to complete the call.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Dial 10288-0-AREA CODE-NUMBER. When AT&T asks for your card number, enter the
|
|||
|
complete Visa or Mastercard number. An operator will come on and say, "What
|
|||
|
type of card are you using?" and you tell her which one. Then she says, "Please
|
|||
|
hold and I'll get you the validation operator." The validation operator comes
|
|||
|
on and asks for your expiration date and sometimes your batch number. The
|
|||
|
batch number is their new security feature and I just read them the first four
|
|||
|
numbers of the card number and that seems to make them happy enough.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
She'll say thank you and put your call through. When you're done with the call
|
|||
|
you can hit the "#" key and dial a new number just like with a calling card
|
|||
|
but you'll have to read off your expiration date again and that takes about
|
|||
|
30-60 seconds. The advantage is that a credit card will last until the owner
|
|||
|
gets the bill and shuts it off, regardless of how many different states calls
|
|||
|
are being placed from and to. As of this writing, though, they don't allow
|
|||
|
any international calling.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
RBCP's Bust:
|
|||
|
-----------
|
|||
|
Recently I was finally busted. Actually, that's the reason I'm writing this
|
|||
|
file. Before I wasn't sure writing a file would be a good idea but now that
|
|||
|
I've quit credit card fraud forever, what the hell? (I always promised myself
|
|||
|
that when I got busted for credit cards, I would quit for good!)
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
I pretty much screwed myself by breaking my own rules. I flew my girlfriend to
|
|||
|
Corpus to visit from Portland, Oregon. A week later I started calling travel
|
|||
|
agencies around town to book a flight back to Oregon only to find that this is
|
|||
|
one of those towns that won't take a credit card over the phone without me
|
|||
|
faxing a copy of the card to them. Finally, I found a travel agency that would
|
|||
|
work.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
I set up the tickets on a card I got from calling a local 7-Eleven. For some
|
|||
|
reason, though, I didn't call and make sure the card was good and it ended up
|
|||
|
being a bad card. We went in to get the tickets and she couldn't give them to
|
|||
|
us because the card was dead. She tried calling my "dad" in Portland (a VMB
|
|||
|
that I set up on a card) but she kept getting the message. Go figure. So I
|
|||
|
told her that we'd come back later today or tomorrow after I'd talked to my
|
|||
|
dad.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
We walked over to Office Depot and called the travel agency. I told the lady,
|
|||
|
"This is RBCP's father..." and I'd just got her messages, etc, etc. I ended up
|
|||
|
giving her a different card and it didn't go through either. So, I said I must
|
|||
|
just be over my limit because of the holiday season just getting over with and
|
|||
|
gave her another Visa and it went through fine.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Later, we walked back over there. This time, Colleen stayed at the pay phone
|
|||
|
to play and I went in to pick up the tickets. The lady smiled and said if I'd
|
|||
|
have a seat she'd be right with me. Ten minutes went by and I'm starting to
|
|||
|
think that this isn't usually the way customers are treated. Then a police
|
|||
|
officer walks in and says, "Could I have a word with you?"
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
The next hour I sat in a cop car as the police went through my backpack. They
|
|||
|
were really interested in the items I was carrying and wanted to know WHY I
|
|||
|
had a cell phone, police scanner, pocket organizer, tone dialer, voice
|
|||
|
organizer, etc. They went over to where Colleen was using the phone and
|
|||
|
started going through her stuff. All this time she thought she was being
|
|||
|
busted for red boxing until she saw me in the back of the police car.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
So that's it. Not that interesting of a story, but that's what happened to me.
|
|||
|
I ended up spending one lousy night in a holding type cell (not jail) and got
|
|||
|
out the next evening. I'm still waiting for my court date and they say it'll
|
|||
|
most likely just be a fine and/or restitution.
|
|||
|
|
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