I always leave my bank account overdrawn and my cellphone bill late just in case someone hacks into either account. Somehow it makes me feel better knowing that they went to all the trouble and they would have to pay first to get anything.
On Monday night I suddenly realized that my cell phone had no service. I checked my wife’s phone and it had no service either. Our neighbors have the same carrier so I checked with them and everything was fine. Uh oh. I knew we weren’t late with our payment so something sinister had happened.
I called AT&T and sure enough, someone had hacked our account and upgraded our phones, rendering our phones useless while they got two new iPhones with our money. They also changed the address to somewhere in the Boston area. Jerks.
We finally got things straightened out but before we did, I called my cell number and the guy answered the phone. I told him his plan was brilliant and kept him on the line for a few minutes. Turns out he thought he was a genius. Then at one point I had my neighbor yell, “We’ve got the address!”, and I yelled back, “Send the team!” and then hung up. Heh, heh, heh.
I hope he soiled himself. Is that wrong?
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omg, I WISH I could’ve done what you did. I hope he did soil himself. I’d want to turn the tables so badly. Can’t stand con-artists and hackers. Ever since we’ve moved, within 1 year my family had to change the debit card 2 times. Just this past month someone was depleting the bank accounts and made nearly $2,000 worth of payments with another just about to be processed. The bank stopped it and are still investigating. They say it didn’t come from our area. But I don’t know about that. Hackers use hidden networks and servers that connect all over the world, making it impossible to trace. I’m glad you caught the creep and got a little sweet revenge.
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It was fun getting even. I’m sorry your family had to go through this ever threatening crap. The breeches are becoming increasingly frequent so it will undoubtedly get worse. I think I’m going to get a Lifelock account.
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Thank you. I’m in Florida, and they must have some huge rings here, every day it’s on the news. Our County’s main website was hacked over the month so every one paying their utility and water bills has to do it over the phone or by check. I wonder if our hack stemmed from that. It’s possible, hundreds of people got hit. I’ll look into the life-lock system.
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Wow, that’s really bad. Did you sustain hurricane damage?
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Even though we live by the ocean the Hurricane moved West. But parts of the county still got swamped. 😦 I think because our are sits on a higher ground, the water never reached us. The winds were more like tropical storm so there was some damage to the backyard. But nothing like they’d predicted 24/7. Not on our side. I feel terrible for the areas that did get hit hard. We evacuated because of all the uncertainty. We’re New Yorkers, we’d gotten through some hurricanes, but they still left a mark. So we were unsure how bad it could be here.
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Well I’m happy you came through it with minimal damage. I have a lot of friends there, near Naples who were hit pretty hard.
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Thank you. I’m sorry. It was a crazy storm that kept changing course.
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