Well, I'm now officially a victim of credit card fraud. Apparently someone decided to buy $2000 NBA playoff tickets using my (now cancelled) Citibank card. Fortunately the Citibank people responded quickly and I've got a new credit card on the way and will not be liable for the charges. Yet another reason why credit cards are better than debit cards or cash.
Get your Tim Geithner TAX CHEAT! stamps!
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hopefully they'll catch them red handed in the seats!
Way back when the phishing schemes first started, I fell for one of them. The email was from "eBay".. and since I had indeed made some changes to my eBay account, I thought it was perfectly plausible that they'd need to "verify" my "account information". I filled in pretty much every field they wanted.
A short while later I found out what I had really filled out and sent.. and I immediately started protecting myself. I had a fraud alert put on my credit profile (through Equifax and TransUnion), notified American Express and Bank of America (my credit cards), and changed bank accounts (and got a new debit card).
Fortunately, nothing happened. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I was fooled once.. but never again am I falling for one of those.