My morning started with Ethereum

This is a Rant but no

So I awake to an email from sister at 8am about my Ethereum account. I slept in I'm usually up at 7 so I'm off already.


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By the way, I'm on a cellphone. Can't access DM's. Wink wink.. apologies for those trying to DM me for travel plans.

So I came out of my room to say thank you. She then replies I didn't send you an email and the banks been calling all morning.

Gears start grinding in my head.

So without my morning coffee I went straight to my Gmail and locked it down. Also didn't use the latrine.

Next the bank.

Call the number back on caller I'd witch showed the name and number of the bank.

Will update with pics after posting.
Edit: uhh.. page five, those pics are blank white. gimme a sec for them to load.
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Can't see pic, please work.


This A-hole called to.




Lady on phone answers as the bank representative. Needs info to process but I'm not feeling right all of the sudden. Her English was a bit off and I could hear children yelling in the background.

Also, and I sh!t you not, a rooster starts crowing. Cockadoodledoo.
I ask her where she was. She said home, the bank hires. People to work at home, so they have my info, at home.

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Hang on ATS I think is about to refresh. Post

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Call the number on the back of the card. Got a representative and explained. Bank rep also explained to me that they do have people working from home. I have them and the number so I ask that we call together. We called and got the first caller I.D. number to answer.

Hello (in broken english) and childrens laughter in the background. Foreign lady rep talks to my bank people.

Somehow this nice foreign lady with a menagerie kids and poultry was able to pull up my address and bank card info. So one agent from my bank mutes me and transfers me to a private line. They need me to go to my primary branch to get a new card for the now compromised one.


Now I have to drive to the bank.

So I drive to the bank that's holding my ID card and locked up items. Simple 4 miles drive with construction and the worst JAGG OFFS in Pittsburgh. Guy gets in front of me (he cut me off) and does 25 in a 35mph at the start of my 4 miles trip. He had a cowboy hat, and drove by hitting the gas and slowing down.

For for miles..

So I arrive at the bank, boarded up. So I drive up the way another 5 miles to the next township over.
Ok this should be a picture of that bank too


Drive home to find a bank. Rush hour traffic.


Continue.

BB on high alert.

No morning routine.

Get ‘em BB. Savage those mongrels with beak and claw.

a reply to: Bigburgh

Great, now I have to sit here all night watching this thread. First time my bank info was stolen was a PITA but it's easier now.

In fact someone that stole my card # bought a $800 vacuum using my number 1,200(!) miles away. Said big box store sent me a Google home kit because of the bogus purchase that was A. Never picked up (gotta present the card and ID dummy) and B. Bought with a shut off card.

a reply to: Bigburgh

a reply to: Bigburgh

What a hassle. I hope you get it all straightened out.

I have a phone number that is just used for my financial institutions and another for just general internet use. That makes it easier to know which calls and texts I can ignore.

a reply to: Bigburgh

Going home was a fiasco of idiots and construction. Again a guy in a pretty new Volkswagen does a screw the merge point a the hell with the yield sign. Not a problem this car absolutely without a doubt, will not pass inspection come November. I'm in the market for a new car.

Found the right bank and went back to the same township in which I came. Along the way, this phone alerted me of my payment not going through over the weekend. Oh boy stop by cricket now too.

I'm now at the proper bank branch now relocated. I go in and the hostess, door person? Ask that I have a seat. During this time I couldn't use my phone to play angry birds.

I was met by the Bank Manager whom was a rather tall gentleman named Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan
He's also African American. With my Spry eyes I said "Well hello, big fan Mr Jordan".

He smiled and replied "Thanks I get that a lot". I smiled a said "Well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton". He laughed and said my age was showing. Fraud was taken care of and a new card issued.
Here's my new card👇

I should mention I ask about my personal items stored in the lock box at my old branch. They don't have them, but they're protected now in a safe way downtown Pittsburgh. I'll handle this tomorrow.

The drive to cricket to pay my bill which was auto pay. I arrive at cricket to change card numbers, this went actually really easy, so easy I went next door and bought the gentleman 3 boxes of assorted cupcakes.


Drive home I remembered all the autopays that are due this week. Ok no problem...

My Health insurance company called. Oh what now.

Isn't this new technology era we were shoved into so much more of a headache. I thought things were supposed to get better with Technology...evidently I was too trusting of people creating this trash.

Years back it did make things simpler, but those days are long gone. I had my credit card compromised but luckily I paid attention and called right away and the woman changed my account number.

Dalamax
tamusan
billxam
tamusan
&
rickymouse

Thanks for the replies. Yes tech is a curse and sometimes a blessing. Thanks for your patience as this matter is not finished. I've just wrapped up another call involving this.

I'm tired, I might have a lay down. I have more to do tomorrow.

With my sister's email this morning that she DID NOT SEND

It was is concluded the hack was through GOOGLE.

Change Your Password (s)

a reply to: Bigburgh

Crikey BB.

Sorry to hear all that. Know what its like trying to get on something important and having distractions and stupidity constantly in the way.

So Gmail got hacked and passwords were stolen?

Cheers

a reply to: F2d5thCavv2

Thanks for the response. I'm taking this with a sense of humour.

You know how you have a cellphone/contact list, and you manually put a picture of the person in your phone's contact list?

They managed to take that picture of my sister that's in my phone only not hers. And they used her actual email to send a message to me. That pic is on this phone and they got access to it.

Google mail. My New password is:

"Klattu varata necktie I heart 3.14159265359".

They were able to almost access my medical records. Both the hospital and my health insurance provider were able to keep it from fully accessing my info... Which would have been a gold mine of information on me.
🤔

It continues today, I'm really tired too.😆👍

Wouldn't be to aggravatingly ludicrous if it weren't for taxes due right now.

This sounds like an episode of Scammer Payback on YT, so much runaround and sketchyness.

You made it out alive, and hopefully they haven't found new ways to aggravate you.

You always have an amazingly humorous way of telling stories, that aren't always humorous. Which may mean you have some seriously useful coping skills, kudos!

I tend to always like your posts

OMFG!!!
Sincerest sympathies dealing with your epic saga. As said, if you can drive in the 'burg" you can drive anywhere. Dodge 'Em Cowboy! Heheheh Kudo's for the late start, pretty sure you get bonus-points for missing garbage truck & school bus traffic. Looking forward to the rest of this saga.

Note* Phone stores have been unnaturally kind to folk this past yr. Couldn't get that stupid icon off my phone that prevented me making phone calls for like two weeks. (yes I freakin googled!) So in a complete fit I pulled into a ATT Store an got "loud" about needing a 14yr old to FIX MY PHONE! Wasn't even my phone carrier. Yes, it took them about 4 minutes done with a smile & they didn't even try to sell me anything.

DISCLAIMER: No children were harmed or triggered by my insanity altho that "14yr old" had a suspicious amount of gray
hair.