Posted on 02/22/2009 5:12:45 PM PST by nysuperdoodle
Paul Amos, a Nigerian citizen, was arrested trying to enter the US through Los Angeles last week, for scamming $27 million from Citibank. I wonder if this worked with other banks. Maybe that's why none of them want to tell us where the TARP funds are... they sent it all to Nigerian scammers. Well, with so much free money floating around, and losses subsidized by taxpayer money, why bother to check these things?
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It’s not exactly related, but I unexpectedly got a new debit card in the mail, thought it was way too soon. Turns out they got hacked and had to issue new cards to everyone, got everyone’s info except the pin.
Not a joke?
” Maybe that’s why none of them want to tell us where the TARP funds are... they sent it all to Nigerian scammers. “
LOL, they must have fallen for one of those emails we get everyday from some “Nigerian Prince”, forced to flee the country and who has a “business proposition” for me...
http://www.TedNugentForSenate.com
This whole TARP thing is a Kenyan scam.....
:) BTTT!
Weeks ago I also got a letter from my bank saying there had been a security breach and they would be sending me a new Visa Debit card.. Still haven’t received it.. Account seems to be untouched so far.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2188935/posts
More from the Taxpayer Ass Rape Program! (TARP)
It seems the “perfect” storm is still brewing..
In my case it was a cu, but I called them when my old card suddenly wouldn't work. They had sent a letter explaining it, but it was returned. No reason on my end for that, then she saw they had the wrong address on it.
I checked my acct, too; nothing seemed amiss. The hackers would have to make up phony cards (probably easy enough to do, wouldn't know), then guess the 4-digit pin #, so I'm not really sure what they hoped to gain unless they did get the pin #'s which is certainly possible in a data base. How many tries at an ATM machine would it take?
Anyway, maybe you should call your bank, harder if it's one of the big ones & not local, but you can find a toll-free number online, odd you haven't received it yet as that is WAY too long. I'm always concerned, too, when things are up in the air like that.
I’ll do just that.. If it’s not in the mail tomorrow I’m headed down to the bank.
Wow. It all makes sense now. That huge withdraw from the money markets the end of September ‘08 that started this whole crisis.
I bet that Nigerian prince finally found someone to help him withdraw his money !
LOL.
ping
i-Tunes, skype, pro-flowers, CD universe, and several others would NOT give any assistance with getting the names and addresses used by the perps.
Google, (gmail) would not even release info they had on record about the perp.
It was refused by all parties because of regulations that could cause theme legal action or law suits.
They even had several Credit Cards made using my name and info. Bills
The whole thing took several months to get through it all.
However, I did find out that the FTC had very good info and resources on their site about ID Theft. Also allowed me to post a warning to all credit bureaus right from their site.
Also they have the text of a law that says... that a victim of an ID theft can demand from businesses that are involved ALL information they got on the perps while handling the trans-action(s).
The businesses still would not release anything without court orders! Ba$tards!
Scary stuff! I haven’t even used my debit card in years. It’s seems to be a widespread breach that’s putting tens of thousands at risk.
The Visa side was what they got. No need for a PIN # on that and that is what they used. Then using my information they applied for and got a CC!
Good thing I used that FTC service to put a warning on my name/SS#/personal info and that seemed to stop everything. But not until $1000’s were grabbed or spent.
Got a lot back but messed up many accounts and regular payments. See FTC.gov if you ever even suspect it happened to you. It may put a stop to most the perps will try.
Courts are no good, cops are no good, DA’s are no good, State Police are no good. You will be on your own. FTC.gov worked.
Thanks for all the good info!
Well, yeah, but not the usual kind.
That is one pretty lame excuse imo. Maybe they are monitoring that one card, but I'm not sure I believe that either. You can monitor it online yourself. Do you believe it?
At this point, I'd be pretty angry. I'd advise you to go elsewhere, but that may not be good advice the way things are going. No sense in giving in to a knee-jerk reaction (which I sometimes do) and ending up cutting off your nose, you know the saying.
Thanks for the update, but some of it doesn't make sense.
I told her I was checking on my debit card replacement status to make sure it wasn’t lost in the mail.. Without asking me for any info.. she assured me it wasn’t. I think they had to replace tens of thousands of cards and that particular company really did run out of plastic.
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