Last weekend we stopped at taco time before we left for Vernal. We didnt realize until we got to Roosevelt when we bought gas that we had left Alex's debit card there. We called immediatly and cancelled it, and just used our credit card the rest of the weekend.
Monday morning I went to go replace our old debit cards because they no longer worked. When the lady gave me a list of the latest charges I noticed one on there for $275 from 'Lego Shop At Home'. I called Alex he said he hadn't purchased any legos online so we filed a dispute with Mtn America and filed a police report. What was odd was that we cancelled BOTH of our debit cards on 8/14, and the lego $275 charge was made on 8/15. The mtn america person we were dealing with on the matter said it must have just slipped through and that it just happened. We knew that someone from Taco Time must had taken his card and done this because his was the one we left. The next week we find out that the charges would be felony if the product was purchased from in the state of Utah, but if the Lego Shop At Home place was located in New Jersey, or California, the charges would be Federal at that point. We were pretty excited to know that whoever stole the card would be facing a minimum of a Felony but more than likely a Federal offense over stinkin LEGOS!
I go to the bank to get an afidavit for the police to get a warrent issued to Lego Shop At Home so they will release the information to us about who purchased the items. I get there, and I am informed that it wasn't Alex's card (the STOLEN one) that was used to buy the Legos...it was MINE. I of course told the man that this was impossible because my card wasnt the one that was stolen, it was Alex's. He said that sometimes, and its very rare and the odds of this happening to me are EXTREMELY unlikely, hackers make a program that is so genius that it punches in 16 diget numbers all day long until it finds one that works, and mine just happened to be punched in and it worked. But I just dont get it because when you make any purchases online you have to know the card experation date and the three number code on the back. He said that these hackers are really really smart and dedicate all of their time to crack this kind of stuff and it is unfortunate that this happened to me. No charges were filed with the girl at Taco Time that we could have easily identified, and Murray City told us that if it is outside of Utah then there is nothing they can do about it. I dont understand this because obviously this has happened to more than one person, and if the hackers are as smart as they say they are then they know to make sure its an out of state card. But how come this is just a simple matter of "If its out of state we cant handle it further" I get that part, but why cant they tell us who can take this further? There has to be something that can be done to prevent other people from being victims of stuff like this. We got our $275 back, and I know that is a minimal amount of money, but is that really the point? Why cant it be investigated further I guess is what I am wondering....oh well, its just a crazy story!!!
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