Hacked.

Ali got a call from the automated fraud prevention department of my credit card this morning asking about a charge for 65.65 to a “computer store”.  I hadn’t bought anything recently so the red flag immediately rocketed up.  I call customer service.  He rattles off charges posted today to cybertv, itunes and napster, none of which I made.  He shut down the card so no further damage could be done.  I will be issued a new card shortly.

Now of course the question is how did this happen.  I asked the guy on the phone, he said it can be tons of ways.  He said sometimes people just use random card number generator programs and try numbers until one works.  My suspicion immediately focused on Lowe’s.  For my water heater transaction I had to call in and give my CC info on the phone.  All it takes is one shady person to get ahold of that info.  I called Lowes and informed them of the fraud on my account.  I said I wasn’t accusing anyone but I wanted to make them aware of it, just in case they have a criminal in their crew, you just never really know.

The charges totalled to less than 70 bucks but I’m sure they were fishing to see if anyone would notice.  If I wouldn’t have acted I think big time charges would have been rolling in shortly. All of the charges were internet related, of course.  Just one more thing to endear me to the human race, bunch of dishonest pricks…

To add to the weirdness, I got an email from GMAIL to my work email address confirming a gmail account that I didn’t create.  The weird thing is the name of the account was [email protected].  So whomever made it knew my name, where I lived and my work email address.  I am hoping this was just a joke from one of my buddies but after the CC scam, I’m not much in the joking mood.

My unexpected 3 day weekend has no big plans.  I am hoping the nice cool weather continues so I can do some outside stuff without sweating to death.  Other than that who knows.  After the week we have had at work, a 3 day weekend is welcomed.

I got an unexpected call last night after work from the pool cage guy.  He asked where the problem screening was on the cage and then said he should be out by next Tuesday to fix it, no bubbles, no troubles.  That was a pleasant surprise.  I totally expected this to be another drawn out, aggravating situation.