If anyone needs advice on dealing with fraudulent charges on their bank account, I offer myself up as extremely knowledgeable in this area.
The bad news was someone cleaned out my account of $2800 just before my son came. The good news is they sent it to Bruce, with instructions to send it on to someone at JP Morgan Chase, to which my son said, “Do they think I’m that stupid?” Apparently. They then tried to send the money to the same JP Morgan Chase account, along with money in his account for his mortgage. The bank was now involved, and when son got here, he and I went to the bank and spoke to a customer service rep, who did all he needed to do to stop that transfer and to get the now $3800 back into his account.
I had to get a new debit card, but this time I had to open a new account, transfer the money in my old one to my new one, because the bank felt someone had access to my old account, which obviously they did
Moving right along, now I am checking my account balance and found a recurring charge of $34.95. I spoke to someone at the bank just after son left, and they reversed that charge. But a couple days later I saw another one, same amount, same place listed on the charge. Of course, now I had to spend about 2 ½ hours on the phone, mostly on hold, with the bank so that I could make clear to them not to allow any more charges from that vendor. Once again they had to cancel my card and send me another new one. This makes about 5 or 6 new cards I’ve had to get this year.
They did rush this card and I had it 2 days later.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. But I am going to go to another bank within the next week, and move whatever is in my account, and close my Wells Fargo account. I am waiting, because the bank has filed a claim on behalf of my son, who also uses Wells, to get back the $1000 pilfered by the creeps who somehow accessed his account. They had told us 10 days, and as of yesterday he still did not have it. Sooooooo, he’s going to deal with it in person, or on the phone. The bank is responsible, so I’m not too worried, but don’t want to close my account until he gets the $1000 back.
Really sick of this.
In other news, my hockey team, Tampa Bay Lightning, is on a road trip and playing notoriously badly. They are losing games that should be easy wins. They are so talented, but they have no urgency to their game. I’m a little disgusted. They do have a bunch of new guys, and traded away 4 of their most popular and best players. So I guess they are in a rebuild state.
Next, you all know the terrible problem I had with rats which cost me about $5k to get rid of. I didn’t really have the money, but thought I had to find the money, cuz I couldn’t stand the rats. So no rats in the attic, but I now have mice or maybe just a single mouse. I was sure it was mice because they only eat about a silver dollar sized pice off the side of a banana, and an avocado. And besides, I had visual confirmation when I opened the drawer under my sink where my garbage is and a mouse jumped out of it. I rearranged the traps under the sink so they had to get by them to get out. I now have 3 or 4
traps set strategically in my kitchen. And the good news is I haven’t seen hide nor hair of the damn mice for 3 days. No traps sprung, or even pushed aside. I’m thinking I might have scared them off.
My sister was going to come over for Art in the Yard. She texted me yesterday that her husband, who is very fit, but 89 years old, is spending the night at the hospital due to wild fluctuations in his blood pressure. She said he will probably get a pacemaker installed today, but that will most likely affect her plans with me. Understandable, in fact I would expect that. I hope they can restore him because he’s very active (still golfing a couple of times a week). It’s just concerning when a man of his age is going to get a procedure I assume he will be knocked out for. Scary, in fact.
Oh, and I had my water shut off on me. I gor my bill in October, and it was about 3 times the amount of my normal bill. They show you, in a graph on the bill what your water usage was every day. My graph showed a week where it was up like 200%. Then it returned to normal usage. I called public works, who insisted I must have left the hose on, or had a toilet running. I told him I did not. I only have one toilet and I would have heard it running. Then he says, well it’s not a high enough bill to investigate. Well, it was high enough for me, I don’t have an extra $200 to give to the city. But there was no arguing it with this guy. I paid $100 of the bill, and would try to pay it down in a few months. I didn’t make the arrangements with the billing department. I called them and they said, oh now, you have to pay the whole bill to get the water turned back on. So I did, had water on a couple hours later, but was very unhappy that I couldn’t get anyone in Public Works to help me.
It took me 3 days to get the house back in shape when the kids left. Laundry (sheets, towels and clothes). I found blocks all over my house, or I should say under the furniture. My son’s girlfriend doesn’t even try to help, but at least my son does. I’m sure that’s the way she grew up but it still irritated me, that while my son was getting Lucian to bed, for naps or at night, since he’s the one Lu wants to put him to bed, and she just sat on the couch on her phone. Oh well. People tell you who they are. There were a few other issues, but for the most part I let them slide, not wanting to put my son in a difficult position. I talked to him privately after they got home. Oh well. It’s too bad…..
It was an exhausting week, a lot of it due to the fraud stuff. Dan smoked a couple of pork shoulders and made a whole meal for them. That was really nice. We swam in the pool at his house too. Dottie told me I would be really glad to see them, and to see them go. She was, for the most part, right.
Son wants me to come out there next summer, because Dez is going to visit her sister in OK. I could get excited about that, if I didn’t hate to travel so much.
You are now up to date on the stuff I’ve been dealing with. It was still great to see the kids, especially Lucian, because he’s growing so fast. Life is good.
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