Comments for blog.limedaley.com/post/pocket-notes17

Comment #2717

2011-12-20T19:13:28Z

Price says nothing about quantity... This whisky sells for about £20 a cl, which corresponds to over $100 per shot.

Comment #2716

2011-12-20T11:01:35Z

They probably just mixed the two up: $50 of gas and $100 of liquor. ;)

Comment #2715

2011-12-20T08:38:45Z

It was likely from Restaurant Depot, since they sent us a letter a bit ago that said some Russians had hacked into their servers, and inserted software that tracked all of the credit card numbers, and no one noticed for a couple months, so anyone who shopped at the store with a credit card during those two months had their number grabbed by the software.

I called the credit card company, expecting them to make us change the number, but they didn't, and said that we could wait until someone actually used it.

Some number of days later, I got a text message from one of those weirdo unidentifiable numbers saying to call this 800 number (which wasn't the normal card number) and enter this secret PIN which they gave in the text message. I figured it was probably spam, since the credit card company has never texted me before. So, I called the regular 800 number, and after verifying who I was, he immediately said, "oh, it says here I need to direct you to another department".

They wanted to know if I had purchased some gas in Canada (which I thought might be plausible, if the charge had taken a long time to show up on the bill, though she said it was for $100, which would be more than usual. And then it was followed by $50 of liquor, which I never buy liquor in such small quantities. :)

Comment #2714

2011-12-18T21:21:34Z

Bravo, Noah! Wonderful thinking. And bravo to Jonathan for being a good teacher: he gave Noah a challenge Noah didn't think he could manage, then led him gently to think through it. Now if only Jonathan could be so patient with himself....

I hope the credit card thing has now been straightened out. Was it a gas station? Our banking friend says they are notorious; the amount of money the banks lose through that kind of fraud is staggering.