No luck o'the Irish
First, there was the accident with a drunk driver a couple of months ago.
Then, came a letter from my old employer that a computer with various personnel info (such as name, SIN#, address, etc) had been stolen, forcing me to put a fraud alert on my credit report.
Now, we discover somebody made a copy of my girlfriend's bank card and stole $1000 out of our joint account.
ARGH!
posted by Kyle_From_Ottawa @ 10:33 p.m.
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Oh no!! $1,000! Awful.
Btw, you are having the luck of the Irish. The expression means bad luck.
Good luck sorting it out.
Well, a friend who's a bank manager told me that it should be only a few days before the bank credits back the money into our account, thank goodness.
Luck o'the Irish means bad luck? I didn't know that. All though, I guess Frosted Lucky Charms that I ate as a kid isn't quite a historical authority on the matter.
Thank goodness is right. Do you have to close the account and open a new one, etc. etc.?
Lucky Charms! :)
"Always after me Lucky Charms..." Right up there with "Silly Rabbit, Trix are..."
The saying has probably evolved to mean its opposite, as some words do. Strange how that works.
Went to the bank this morning.
They had a copy of her bank card and PIN, but after they made two $500 withdrawls from a downtown Montreal bank machine, the transactions were marked as suspicious and her card was automatically cancelled.
You can't (at least through our bank) get the account # or transit # from an ATM (you can only do that in-branch or online or from a cheque), so once the card was cancelled they had no more access to our account. We don't need a new bank account, or so the bank tells us.
Oh Kyle, I'm so sorry...
good luck clearing things up
How'd they copy her card?
Well, we got the money back yesterday.
Who knows how they copied her card, but it's happened to a suprising number of people lately. The money always seem to be withdrawn from bank machines in Montreal (which is Canada's organized crime headquarters and 200km away from where I live). Given that fact, I'm guessing it might be a fairly sophisticated operation, which means they may have even comprimised a bank ATM. According to my bank manager friend, I'll never know how it happened. The banks have special fraud teams that investigate these crimes, but I'll never know the results of the investigation.
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