Ramona Byrd

[quote=ginnie6]here's my security sign.....no computer hacking possible!
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Lots of my family are cops, so say things like that in a sign could mean a lawsuit! Strange..

BUT they say a picture, for instance, of one of our Doberman Pinchers snarling, with the words "LARGE DOG ON PREMISES"
would be just a statement. It got the attention of the power company's meter readers, who had always wanted us present when coming into our un-locked fence (we kept it locked otherwise) and wanted us to always make sure the dogs were
safely contained..and it would be nice if we were always there.
They sent us another card telling what day in what month they would come to our house. Real careful people they are.

Ramona Byrd

I recently received a letter from a Soldier in Iraq,
who had found a small outbuilding layered in American
cash instead of insulation. He desperately needed to get
this to America, his mother was in failing health and he
wanted to get her to another country for medical help
she can't get here. All he needed was my bank account
number so he could send it to me, then if I would be so
good as to give him 60 percent of it when he got back
next month, his dear mother would thank me.

It was such a sad case!!

Nowhere was the information on how he was going to get
that money into a bank to send electronically, nor how he
was able to find and contain it all to himself. My own SIL
and grandson were there two times each, said such things
HAD been found, and they said that anyone on search went with others, plus a cameraman who recorded everything
they did. And found.

Ramona Byrd

I have one unbreakable rule...if anyone wants anything
at all, then the answer is NO.

If I give anything to anyone or group, then I, and I alone
will do the work to give it.

I don't talk finances with anyone, and I tell the honest truth
to only 3 people...my doctor, my lawyer, and the Income
Tax man. With all others I will shade the answer depending
on what mood I'm in at the moment. Sometimes I might
actually tell the truth, but if anyone asks a question I feel
they don't have the right to get an answer, then the sky's
the limit. Numbers, I don't do numbers, and it's astonishing
how bad my memory gets sometimes when I don't want to
tell anyone anything.

dreamer2009

It's a good rule of thumb that if you are buying or selling and dealing with Money Orders...ALWAYS...get them from the Post Office. Do not accept payment if not from Post Office.

charmpacksplus

Speaking of credit cards..... when you go out to eat do not give your debit or credit card to the waiter to take up front to pay. Bring it up there yourself or pay cash. The new way they steal your info is to take a photo, front and back, with their cell phone of your card. They have all they need to start charging things to your account online.

Old man- New quilter

My daughter had her wedding dress (she's divorced now ) up on Craigs list for sale and made a deal with someone who sent her two money orders for $900.00 each and gave her instructions to send the dress to a p.o. box. She took the M.O.'s to her bank and found that they were fake. Then sent an e-mail to the "provider" telling them that the M.O.'s had been turned over to the police. ( she didn't send the dress )

walen

Yikes! What way will they think of next so they can steal, cheat, and rip off honest folks? What happened to old-fashioned honesty? It all just makes me sad.

mlaceruby

Well I purchased some fabric from a woman and purchased one of these MO. Well it must be lost in the mail, she has never recieved it.
So I went to get a refund or an exchange at the convience store where I purchased it. Can't!
bought it before I knew of the problem with them as in my original post!
this was for over $100
had to make copies of everything and the store has to mail it somewhere and then I have to wait 30 days for my refund
Never again will I purchase a MO that isnt from the PO!!

Annz

Thanks this is very important info as I am going to teach myself how to set up an account, take and upload pictures to ebay and craigs list to sell some things.

sew_southern

I usually use my check/debit card at the grocery & gas station. Was told a fews years ago to always use my card as credit, never use debit and your pin number. People can be sitting in their cars in the parking lot with their laptops hacking the system and getting your pin.