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Are you sure it was really your credit card company that called?  Did they ask you for your credit card number or did they already know it?  I got a call a while back from someone purporting to be from the IRS and before they would discuss my "problem" they had to confirm my social security number.  NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER give any personal information to anyone to calls you.  Its not even safe these days to call them back on the number they give you.  These scammers had the same prefix as the IRS.  How do I know?  As soon as I got off the phone with them (without giving any information and securing a call-back number)  I looked up the IRS number and called them.   There was no problem with my taxes and they were very interested in the phone number I gave them.   Its a shame we have to be so careful these days, but that's life in the 21st century!

 

Karen

 

 Karen Williams
Spotsylvania, VA
www.mattariver.com

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From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Vallonelee@xxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [RC] OT - Nigerian scam

I recently got a call from my credit card company telling me that my card was "no longer secure".  They wouldn't go into details but they checked all the charges on my account and then closed it down and gave me a new card.  She told me they didn't even know how many cards were compromised. 

Lee
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out"