Buying gas from a place that I regularly purchase gas from = Suspicious Transactions.
Buying gas from the gas station up the street as the first purchase on a new card = Suspicious Tranactions.
Spending ~$1,000 on two gun purchases, maybe 30 minutes apart, on a brand new credit card that was activated about 2 hours earlier […]
Tag Archive for 'annoyances'
Fraud Detection Still Lame
09Apr08Lessons I never learn
01Apr08Episode #983: Never give a Windows PC to someone who isn’t an expert.
Not so long ago I had a friend in need of a computer. What I should have done was snag an early x86 Mac Mini off a fleabay and scrounge the rest of the need parts from my collection of old crap. What […]
Unimpressed
18Mar08I’ve recently become a Washington Mutal customer. I’m keeping my accounts with my credit union, but they don’t have any branches convenient to where I live and work these days so I figured I’d go with another bank to take my savings and smaller deposits.
So far I’m not impressed. First there was the comments form […]
I was trying to ask why the WaMu Free Checking page says “Free ATM cash withdrawals worldwide: Withdraw cash from your WaMu Free Checking account at any ATM and we won’t charge you a fee” while their Statement of Fees page says that it costs $2 to use a foreign or non-WaMu ATM.
Suspicious Transactions
07Feb08I swear to God, “Suspicious Transactions” is credit card company lingo for “Purchased Gas.” Just for kicks, this weekend I’m gonna buy a new gun, a couple cases of booze, and make a cash advance from a strip club ATM. I bet they don’t call…
Attention Road Ragers
28Jan08When I flick you off for being a dick in traffic, the correct thing to do is continue along your merry way. Don’t stop in the middle of the road and start to get out of your car. And when I go around you, do not proceed to follow me to my office. These are […]
Since switching themes many of my posts have been littered with ads for PDAs, Phones, and Ringtones. While I’m sure they pay good they aren’t exactly relevant to many of my more recent posts. Despite using section targeting to emphasize my actual content and de-emphasize everything else, Adsense seems to be latching on to the […]
Tonight was the night to run the cable. Picked up a couple of splitters, a pair of very short coax cables to go from the splitter to the tuners, and a long coax extension to run back to where the cable currently is wired. Grabbed one of the tuners, careful not to unplug anything so […]
