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Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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tangerinegreen555 said:
Fabulous day.

I get a call marked Fraud Services, they leave a message with my name, bank and last 4 digits of my debit card, saying they want to discuss possible fraudulent activity on my debit card.

Now be advised I get 10 - 15 calls a week from scammers and have engaged them to tell them to suck a fucking bag. And some asked for CC #'s.

So I call the number in the message and the 1st words out of her mouth are 'give me the 16 digits of your card number'. Not 'hello, how are you, what's happening?' Just 'give me the 16 digits of your card number.'

So I tell her to get fucked, I'm not giving you that and she starts bitching about profanity and hangs up.

Now usually with real scammers, they start saying fuck you too when they figure out they aren't scoring on the call.

So I think to myself, 'self, you should probably check your account on line'.

And at 1st glance account balance, it looks kinda close so I figure it's all bullshit. Then I Google the message number and it appears legit.

So I go back into my account and now see literally dosens of hits and rejections on my bank account. And I see 12 different hits for Netflix.com, five for $10.34, two for $8.99 and 5 more for $0.00. And dozens of declined hits for $0.00.

So I call the number back and I'm nice this time. I get a guy who doesn't know I called earlier and tell him about the message and how I see fraud on my online bank account with a bunch of Netflix.com preauths. (I paid for netflix twice like that over a year ago before Comcast made a deal with Netflix and it's been charged through Comcast ever since.)

So the guy says we have to go over every attempted charge for the report. Charges from Canada, California, Hong Kong, Florida, a couple countries I never heard of, etc.

As high as $763 down to $1.13. They were all declined except for the preauths from Netflix. They guy shut down the card and said go to the bank Monday morning.

Then I call Netflix. The guy there says there are 7 new Netflix accounts associated with my card number and that he was shutting them down and sending a refund to the bank, but that I have to go to the bank Monday morning to tell them to accept the refunds through a cancelled card. I asked if those fuckers could still watch Netflix and he said no, not until they scam somebody else as my card number is now 'blackballed' by Netflix along with being cancelled.

So hopefully I get my $70 back from Netflix soon. I also moved everything that's left into my savings account except for $11 just in case.

The modern day criminal element sucks.

I still remember watching an episode of Hawaii 5-0 when I was in high school like 40 something years ago of some guy moving money from other people's bank accounts on an old car phone the size of a brick but McGarret and Dano had him in jail at the end of the show.

I remember thinking that could never happen.

Welcome to the fucked up future I guess.

Bastards!

(And the good guys shouldn't ask for your card number before anything else either. WTF? That's the 1st thing the banks tell you, don't give out your card number to someone you're not 100% sure about.)

This totally sucks.
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I had a fraudulent netflix charge on one of my credit cards too about a month ago. From The UK or some shit. Only reason I caught it was because i don’t ever use the card so was kind of strange when I opened the statement with a charge on there lol. And netflix? I never pay for netflix. Bank took care of it, replacement card received.

As bullshit as it is, i have a couple other much worse things that happened. I have to file my taxes with a PIN number because somebody has repeatedly tried to file a return with my social. That fucking pisses me off.

A few months ago I checked my checking account balance. It got hit for 10K+. I was like hell no! Called my bank and they said it was a court ordered lien levied against my account by The Los Angeles Sheriffs Dept. uh oh! I googled why that sheriffs dept does this thing and one of them is from the California Franchise Tax Board. Oh shit!

Turns out though, it was from an old credit card debt in 2010. When I said fuck it and gave up my house in Stockton. When I let that last house go in stockton, I let a few credit cards go including that one with a balance of like $3500. The fuckers served me papers in 2011, turns out there’s nothing i can do about this, so bye-bye 10K!

I could have gotten that lien back if let the Sheriffs dept know that the money in my account that they took was insurance money, but then I also would need to list everything I own and a bunch of other crap. Sneaky fuckers!
 
Chunky Stool

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hillbill said:
Just got back from hard walk 1.7 miles and 9 “floors” after daily 100 full knee bends. Test vaping some Soulmate(Bodhi) at the moment.
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That's hardcore!
I mowed my lawn yesterday and I'm hurtin' a bit today.

Gotta mix a batch of dirt this morning. Probably go with something quick & dirty (pun intended).
I usually use EcoScraps organic fertilizer for quick mixes because it already contains compost & doesn't have to be "cooked".
But it's getting harder to find. Not sure why...
 
tangerinegreen555

tangerinegreen555

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Tickled pink they took down the heat warnings of the past 2 days.

You can't function outside with humidity 70-75%, you sweat and it can't evaporate.

So I'm doing very slow things outside like carrying 5 gallon buckets of water and dumping them in the planter walI, then retreating to the shade for a few minutes.

The grass grows like hell in this kind of weather, I cut it last Tuesday and it looks like it's been 3 weeks. Every morning it's as wet as if it had rained.

The good news is the weather breaks tonight with after dark storms and rain tomorrow. The bad news is the hot weather is headed west.

Have fun out there, we'll extract the moisture before we ship it over. You're welcome.
 

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Tickled pink they took down the heat warnings of the past 2 days.

You can't function outside with humidity 70-75%, you sweat and it can't evaporate.

So I'm doing very slow things outside like carrying 5 gallon buckets of water and dumping them in the planter walI, then retreating to the shade for a few minutes.

The grass grows like hell in this kind of weather, I cut it last Tuesday and it looks like it's been 3 weeks. Every morning it's as wet as if it had rained.

The good news is the weather breaks tonight with after dark storms and rain tomorrow. The bad news is the hot weather is headed west.

Have fun out there, we'll extract the moisture before we ship it over. You're welcome.
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My pool pad says 104 today :) we are currently 92ish. It's less of a dry heat, roughly 22%, pretty nice for this time of the year. Thanks for taking the hit this year. Do not think I don't appreciate it.
 
tyler.durden

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I played wedding ceremonies for the last two days. I have a big solo gig tonight, just me performing for 350 people at a wedding reception. I've been a little nervous about this gig for awhile, it's a nice feeling as I rarely ever get to feel nervous about playing these days. I've been getting everything ready for days, so it should go smoothly. The hot weather here has finally broken! We've had heat indices well above 100f for the last week or so. It's 72f now, raining on and off, but so what. It's supposed to be in the low 80s all week, looks like I'll finally be able to enjoy the summer for a while...
 
lokie

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tyler.durden said:
I played wedding ceremonies for the last two days. I have a big solo gig tonight, just me performing for 350 people at a wedding reception. I've been a little nervous about this gig for awhile, it's a nice feeling as I rarely ever get to feel nervous about playing these days. I've been getting everything ready for days, so it should go smoothly. The hot weather here has finally broken! We've had heat indices well above 100f for the last week or so. It's 72f now, raining on and off, but so what. It's supposed to be in the low 80s all week, looks like I'll finally be able to enjoy the summer for a while...
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Just remember to imagine the audience in their underwear.
It may not change much, but you will have a smile on for all to see.;)
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

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tyler.durden said:
I played wedding ceremonies for the last two days. I have a big solo gig tonight, just me performing for 350 people at a wedding reception. I've been a little nervous about this gig for awhile, it's a nice feeling as I rarely ever get to feel nervous about playing these days. I've been getting everything ready for days, so it should go smoothly. The hot weather here has finally broken! We've had heat indices well above 100f for the last week or so. It's 72f now, raining on and off, but so what. It's supposed to be in the low 80s all week, looks like I'll finally be able to enjoy the summer for a while...
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Good Luck! And have Fun! Your going to nail it. Do you ever do any Sinatra songs?
 
WeedFreak78

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Normally I don't mind the heat, but fuck this shit. It's been 90F+ and humid here for almost 3 weeks, except for like 3 days it went down to the mid 80s. According to my outside thermometer it's 95F in the fucking shade right now and it feels like a sauna. I start sweating around 630am when I leave for work and don't stop till I get home around 630pm and shower. The older AC system at work can't get the place under 80 when it's this hot out, it was overheating and setting of alarms Thursday. I'm getting a nasty heat rash in my pits I've never got before and it's fucking irritating.
 
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