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
>
>
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