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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Can't seem to stay away from the enter key...

Hi Sweet Family,

Hope you are all doing very well with your sweet families. Just a brief day here on the home front. We had 3 hits today on credit thru Home Depot. Because Citicorp Credit was on top of things & I had not used my card since 2003 to do the floors in the kitchen, they called to see if I had charged anything today. Of course, we had not, so they put a block on it; got out the videos of the two Asian men who used the acct. to buy 2 $500 gift cards , a barbeque, work gloves, a screwdriver & some cement ($1266.66). That was down at the Fairmount & Mission Gorge area & then they went up to the Lemon Grove Home Depot ($1500.00) but the information didn't seem to jive & by that time there was a block on it from an email saying it was a stolen card (the Fairmount store jumped right on it to its 20 local Home Depots). There was some additional information obtained that will be released to the police & low & behold, since that hadn't worked to their liking, they called in to have their closed acct/card reopened over the phone. The man couldn't answer all the necessary questions - which is a wonder since he had all the information - but the fraud alert was already in place & so they were unsuccessful. We are hopeful that the videos they have of them - Sammy Ung & friend - that real progress will start to come forth from the police dept. We have to wait until our Officer comes back on duty Sat. pm. to see where he takes it from there. We even have a cell # that was used to call & verify that Sammy was an authorized user on our card. I tell you , these guys were really something! Let's us know that we sure aren't the first with this scam!

We have been truly blessed, we realize, & pray that you will all be the same!

Much Love,

Mom & Garry

2 comments:

Utahna said...

Hello-
I'm so glad that a) Citicorp was on top of it and b) the first Home Depot acted quickly. I'm sorry you guys are going through this. Tom said that most likely since they've now been stopped from being able to use your info., that they will probably "toss it aside" --so to speak-- and move on to someone brand new since, obviously, you are aware of the fraud attempts and have all of the blocks in place. Hopefully, that means they will think the same thing of the rest of us (girls) and not bother trying to use our info., too.
Keep us posted on anything new.
Love to all--Utahna

Mom said...

Thanks, Tahn - we sure hope so, too, but feel the attacks may continue for sometime tho' the damage has been kept at bay, so to speak! Appreciate your prayers in all our behalf.

Mom