Dave, One other sick thing about this...if one tells the credit card company of the scam they will do nothing other than contact you, the card holder, or put stop on your card. The bogus buyer thief...the credit card company cares less. Just try to report something like this. They do nothing. Might if were for 1000s.
73, ron, n9ee/r >From: Dave Gomberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/06/18 Wed PM 04:09:51 EDT >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] the scam changes... > >At 04:01 6/18/2008, Ron Wright wrote: >>Credit card companies are a big problem, but with our ecomonic >>system it is almost a requirement one takes them. Trying to report >>a bad card is almost impossible to get any action. They may know >>exactly where the thief is, but will do nothing. > >Ron, it is worse than that. I checked my credit card on line and >there was a charge from QVC (which I never even watch. much less buy >from). I called QVC and they said someone used that card to buy a >camera shipped to San Diego (not where I live!). I told them it was >a bogus order, they said no harm, they would just ask UPS not to >deliver on grounds of fraud. I imagine they use UPS enough to have >that power. > >That is not what I would have done. I would have dressed a couple >of guys up in brown jump suits and sent them to the door, "This your >camera???" If the guy says yes that is when the baseball bat comes >out and his hands accidentally get crushed. >I'll bet he wouldn't do it again. > >-- >Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE gomberg1 at wcf dot com >All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html >---------------------------------------------------------- > > > Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome.
