defeating the purpose
"Lisa" writes, "I recently found out that I was a victim of identity theft." What shocked her, and us as well, is that after Capital One notified her that they'd approved the card with another address, they followed up by sending their fraud claim to the criminal's address instead of Lisa's.
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follow up
Timothy, our hapless eBay seller who kept having
problems listing his laptop on the auction site, was contacted by a Real Live Human from eBay the day after we posted his story. "Garrison" apologized for the frustration, and said he'd be making a note on Timothy's account to keep it from getting shut down by other agents. He also suggested several listing options that were pretty well-covered by our commenters in the original thread.
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scams
SmartMoney has come up with five new spins on classic
scams to watch out for in 2008: "The financial woes and natural disasters of 2007 have armed scammers with plenty of new tricks—or resourceful spins on old ones—aimed at separating you from your cash."
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spitzer
The cock just keeps rocking at the H&R Block terrordome.
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ernest angley
An American preacher on Crusade [sic] in Africa offers an unusal come-on to Lesotho's poor: he cures AIDS.
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gartner
"The banking industry is less than halfway through this latest scam, which will continue to affect large numbers of cardholders."
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Consumerist
aleksey vayner
bioperformance
