I smoked crack once. It was awful, I dont know how they do it.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM <ch...@go-mtc.com> wrote:
> 30 years ago slashdot had a holy crusade to claim hacker and hack as holy
> ground and attempted to get crack, cracked, cracker into the common
> lexicon. I will admit to being a cracker but not that kind.
>
> *From:* Steve Jones
> *Sent:* Monday, February 10, 2025 2:14 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] credit card fraud rate
>
> I hate the term hacked. They use it for everything now, rarely was anyone
> hacked
>
> Most are probably phishing, usually done by the wife following a link from
> pinterest or tiktok for some shit she should have been doing in the house
> anyway
> I got a fraud alert once, never cancelled the card cause F going through
> changing everything. in the course of investigating it I found out my
> name/ssn is associated with some address in New York, Im part owner of a
> crack den or something, I dont know, New York can burn to the ground.
> But another "hack" that occurs, is the pig wife tries making a bunch of
> temu purchases and it flags as fraud because the volume of transactions.
> Women dont have capacity for accountability so they deny any knowing, and
> hubby has to fraud out the card and replace it
> Or same swine lady tries to get in the online account but doesn tknow the
> husband changed the password to "1JustWant2PaintTheCeiling" and locks the
> account out
>
> 99 percent of the time, a set ov ovaries is involved. Take the estrogen
> out of the finance, wed probably see much less fraud
>
> IMHO
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM Robert <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:
>
>> What's the name of the hotel? I think it's a great opportunity to hack
>> the hotel into free bennies with a tossable card ( one that you fill with
>> $$ and toss )... JK....
>>
>> On 2/6/25 11:45 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
>>
>> It's happened to us a few times over the last decade or so.
>>
>> The last time was pretty obvious. We were staying overnight in a hotel on
>> the coast in Pacifica. We had gone out on the beach because it was pretty
>> nice for early January, and got too close to the water, so I got my pants
>> wet.
>>
>> The hotel had a complimentary washer/dryer, so we decided to throw the
>> pants in the dryer so we could hit the road sooner. Oddly (to me) the
>> washer/dryer would not accept coins, bills, or credit cards, but "REQUIRED"
>> you install an app neither one of us had ever heard of before. Of course,
>> the app required a credit card. My SO installed the app, entered our credit
>> card, and whammo! We got a fraud alert on the credit card (like in a
>> minute).
>>
>> I was so pissed at the hotel. They went out of their way to disable other
>> (simpler) ways to put a dime in the washer/dryer, and instead had to have
>> this cockamamie app to pay for it. I complained bitterly, the card was
>> (mostly) inop for a week.
>>
>> The only good thing was the hotel gave us a gaggle of points toward our
>> rewards membership (and an apology)
>>
>>
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>> On 2/6/2025 10:20 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me the rate at which customers have to give us a new card
>> number because their card “got hacked” (i.e. fraud) is surprisingly high.
>> My own experience with both personal and business cards is this happens at
>> most every 10 years or so, and I do a lot of both in person and online card
>> transactions. Not too many though where I hand the card to someone.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this common? Why does it happen so often to some people? Or is
>> something else going on and they aren’t telling me the real reason?
>>
>>
>>
>> I know some people use one-time cards and give us a different one every
>> month or two, but I think this is different.
>>
>>
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