On a more hilarious note: Yesterday Housemate got a package of make-up that she didn't order that had been charged to her Amex card.
Can you say "credit card fraud"? I thought so.
So she calls the company and says she didn't order it and is told to send it back. She calls Amex to report the fraud, cancels her card and is getting a new one sent.
In the mail today, she gets a letter from Amex informing her of three suspicious charges to her card (one of them from a James Patterson book club!) and to please contact them to confirm or deny they were hers. No problem, she already talked to them and one of those is the box she got yesterday.
But there's another box there today too. Another order (this one over $200) of a subscription stuff that is generally needed by people under the age of 25 and not women pushing 60. This one wasn't on the list from Amex. So she called and cancels the subscription and informs the Hydroxie people that it's fraud and she'll send the stuff back.
How many morons steal credit card numbers and then ship their ill-gotten goods to the victim?!?
But, no, that's not the truly moronic part.
Ready?
The theives put their own phone number on the order form.
So, Housemate calls Amex back to update the report the additional facts. The lady from Amex laughs loud enough that I can hear her out of the earpiece of the phone across the room.
Ah, sometimes the fun never ends, y'know?
Fortunately, Housemate used to work in the Visa fraud department of a Michigan bank, so she's totally on top of everything that she needs to do and what's going on and isn't freaked. Pissed, but not freaked.
Merry flipping Christmas. What can I say?
