Watch those scams

our Citibank Mastercard pings our phones with a notice of charge the moment the card is used.

A fukkery from the late 80's - we were down in Costa Rico with the kids, short on Colon's handed over my card after a dinner out in Nosara, went to use my card the following day and it was declined. Called Visa in a sweat being our only card, turned out the limit of $15,000 had been maxed by a purchase of $14,000 in tractor parts..'WTF would I be doing buying tractor parts down here!!!'
Had no card for the rest of the trip, had to jump through hoops to contact Wells Fargo stateside and have them send us money from our savings to cover the rest of the trip. Took over a month stateside to get the charges erased and then promptly dumped Visa.
 
I second the freezing of credit reports, if you don't need to have such a thing active. The guy who handles my retirement $$ strongly recommended this.
 
They are getting real good.

I kept getting scams pretending to be my IP provider. Then I started getting legit notices from my IP provider.

I couldn't tell the difference. I had to call the company to ask which was which, and now I just ignore all their messages. Pretty soon they won't be my provider.

They just got bought out by Bell Canada. They went from a great internet provider to an awful one in just three months of ownership by Bell Canada.

The wholesale internet connection is provided by Chelan County PUD, hopefully, they will start offering retail connections now that the Legislature has finally repealed the law prohibiting counties from offering retail internet, cable TV, and phone service to their owners.

I don't like my money going to Canada.
 
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