{"id":1141,"date":"2010-03-09T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T09:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2010-03-09T01:37:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T09:37:04","slug":"skimmer-scammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Skimmer Scammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?attachment_id=1144\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lovine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/banana-gasman.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Scamming a banana, eh?\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow.  Last week, my credit card company called to inform me of potential fraudulent activity on my card.  I occasionally get these calls since I traverse frequently between SF and LA, and the agent usually explains that the nature of multiple gas transactions are flags for dubious activity.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the agent tries to verify with me a $400 charge at a supermarket around Bell in East LA, and then another $500 charge at a different supermarket, and then another $500 charge.  I don't have a huge family to feed and spending $1,800 in a single day on groceries located an hour away from my house don't float, yo.<\/p>\n<p>And then I come across this today: <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2010\/03\/08\/sheriffs_deputies_bust_id_theft_rin.php\">http:\/\/laist.com\/2010\/03\/08\/sheriffs_deputies_bust_id_theft_rin.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I'm pretty impressed.  If people can do this, imagine the other stuff they could do - legal, and otherwise.  And no doubt, they'll just get better at their game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Last week, my credit card company called to inform me of potential fraudulent activity on my card. I occasionally get these calls since I traverse frequently between SF and LA, and the agent usually explains that the nature of multiple gas transactions are flags for dubious activity. This time, the agent tries to verify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}