Hardly a day goes by without one to three credit card offers coming to me in the mail that say pre-approved on the outside envelope. With 50 million of these being mailed everyday it's no wonder it's so easy to get a card in someone elses name. I run most of my junk mail through a shreader but I'm sure some items slip through. I can't count the number of times I'm called in a month when the caller represents themselves as represenative of a well known financial organization and has the gaul to ask for my SS #. I can't call every one of the callers crooks but the calls are coming from the same people that are bombarding my mailbox with offers. Or at least the callers say they're with those financial institutions. Many times the callers have foreign accents and that's just a sign of the times when even telephone rooms are outsourced to foreign companies at distant lands. Stan Wilder Engine Ceramics 214-352-4931 www.engineceramics.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Wright" <swright@ZUIKO.SLS.BC.CA> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:54 PM Subject: Re: MO's
> On 11 Feb 2005 at 20:16, Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote: > > > Seems that E-Bay is a great fishing hole for crooks and > > fraud. I've always said that E-Bay was like the wild, wild west with everybody > > having the potential of blowing you away. On one $1700.00 cash transaction I got > > about nine counterfeit $100.00 bills. The Post office marked them and declared > > that I was lucky I hadn't taken them to the bank because they would have > > confiscated them on the spot. I contacted the guy that gave me the bogus bills > > and he returned the car and I gave him back his wastepaper. Be warned that > > anytime you sell something you need to get identification, addresses, phone > > numbers, license plate numbers and anything else you can get just in case the > > transaction turns and bites you. It's just welcome to the world we live in > > ............... not much you can do about it except take extra caution. > > You're right about EBay - I've only sold a few things, but I listed an item (non VW) > this week, and within 2 hours had an offer from someone wanted to send me money > by Western Union, and send to a friend's son in Nigeria! By the next day, I had two > more suspicious offers. > I am just glad we have this list, where at least we can deal with some people we > trust, and even check their history in the archives if it's a name we don't recognize. I > just wonder when we'll have to worry about Vanagon list identity theft... > > -- > Shawn Wright > I.T. Manager > Shawnigan Lake School > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005 > >
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