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Credit Card Theft

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Homeowner Skipping the Country Owing $20,000

The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

A Roswell roofing company's owner said he is owed more than $20,000 for work on a Winterfield Way home, but the homeowner told him he's leaving the country. The new roof was installed on March 30. When the roofing company owner tried to collect the payment on April 26, he said the homeowner told him he would be leaving the country for Iran on April 27 and doesn't know when he's returning. Collection Agency Mysteriously Cuts Debt by $1,000 A Morris Road woman got police involved when a debt collection agency called on April 24 and told her she owed $1,700 because she never paid for ATT's U-Verse services. The woman had an easy answer to that: She's never had U-Verse service. When the man from the collection agency asked for her Social …

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Thieves Spend $20,000 Using Milton Man's Credit Cards

The following information was supplied by the Milton police department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

More than $20,000 was spent using credit cards stolen from a Milton man on the day of the theft, April 21. The victim was playing golf at the Alpharetta Athletic Club when he got a call from American Express saying there was activity on his credit card that seemed fraudulent. He told Milton police that he had left his wallet locked in a locker in the clubhouse. Before the day was out, at least seven fraudulent transactions were made at Target, and two more at Fry's. Video surveillance at both stores clearly shows the same couple apparently making the transactions. Target staff was able to confirm the man bought several thousand dollars worth of gift cards at that time. And they confirmed the same man did the same thing at a Target store in…

Kevin Peterson

7:13 am on Friday, April 27, 2012

Same thing happened to me, except it was one of my dependent's SSN. So the efile was rejected and I had to mail it all in, which took about 6 weeks to get back. Plenty of stories all over the country of this happening and the IRS is just not able to prevent it. Maybe a PIN or some other unique identifier needs to be used during filing.   more ›

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