ID Theft -- Courtesy of the FAA

Dennis Johnson wrote:
I'm also confused by this. If the thief paid by credit card at a self-serve
pump, the FBO will get paid by the credit card company, no matter what.

Oh, bull****. You've never been involved in a business that takes
credit cards? While the cardholder is protected, there ain't no
such protection by the merchant. If the card was fraudulant, the
charges will be reversed and you'll pay a service fee too!

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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You can even update your hair color to grey or none as applicable :-)


Or your weight....

HEY! We ain't a gonna go there...

No need to get personal

:-)

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When immigration is outlawed, only outlaws will immigrate.

I think you're unnecessarily hyperventilating over this. My guess is
that someone either provided or copied a wrong tail number at the
FBO. When they discovered the bill hadn't been paid, they did what
FBOs usually do in this situation - look up the FAA info and send a
bill.

All you have to do is discuss it with them. I had a similar situation
a number of years ago and just wrote them back that my Tripacer would
have considerable difficulty carrying 75 gallons of fuel, and that I
had never in my life visited their facility.

"Matt Barrow" wrote:
As I said, you've got holes in your story big enough to drive a freight
train through.

Maybe you can clue us in on what you think "quietguy" gains by this story?

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:28:31 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote in :

$30 fee for an address change

Ah, ATC privatization. Ain't it wonderful?




http://www.faa.gov/licenses_certific...airmen_service
s/
Airmen Online Services
Welcome to the Airmen Certification on-line services site. To
utilize the online services, you must first create an account with
the Airmen Certification Branch.

Create an account
Log in to your account to:
change your address
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http://www.faa.gov/licenses_certific.../media/8060-55.
pdf

thanks so much for taking the time to post this info
saved some money and also updated everything
couldn ot find my info until i found that my license does not use the
first digit in my social security number
thanks again tom

Jim Logajan wrote in
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Maybe you can clue us in on what you think "quietguy" gains by
this story?

Probably the same thing that people who send out comupter viruses or
political bull sh*t gain (whatever turns them on).

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On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:30:06 -0700, quietguy wrote:

Correct -- as I've since found out. I'm learning more by the minute
about ID theft and its repercussions.

We have several "rainy day" credit cards in a safety deposit box at the
bank that we have *never* used.

Imagine my surprise when I got home from vacation in February to find my
message machine contained 2 automated suspected fraud calls on two of those
cards.

Phone calls revealed two $300 internet charges to cell phone vendors on one
card and one $200 internet charge to another cell phone vendor on an other
card.

My best guess is that someone pulled a credit report on me and used the
printed card numbers off of it.

So... try as you might... you can't get away from these scum.

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Dallas

On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:38:11 -0700, quietguy
wrote:

On Jul 1, 1:11 pm, "Viperdoc" wrote:

without reading the whole thread, did you call your
credit card company and dispute the charges?

I have online access to my credit-card statement and it appears to be
updated nearly in real-time. The charge (from a 20 May transaction)
hasn't appeared. And that, like everything else about this case,
leaves me perplexed: if the FBO submitted a charge to some credit-card
company and they were told the account number was bogus, why just send
me a nice, polite "Past Due -- Please Remit" invoice? And didn't they
see in the FAA database that the N-number wasn't even active yet?
Curiouser and curiouser ...

Be careful, this could be the snail mail version of the e-mail
phishing scams.

quietguy wrote:
On Jul 1, 12:37 pm, "Dennis Johnson" wrote:
I'm also confused by this. If the thief paid by credit card at a self-serve
pump, the FBO will get paid by the credit card company, no matter what.

I could understand the credit card company coming after you to pay, but that
doesn't sound like the case here. I'm with the other poster who guessed
that it's a billing error by the FBO and will be resolved on Monday.

Good Luck,
Dennis

Thanks for the kind wishes. This thing is really chapping my ass.
I'm a retired Air Force officer -- for twenty years my reputation
meant more to me than my life, and now I'm finding out that it still
may. I didn't sleep much last night.

There may not be a credit card company: crime rings manufacture pretty
good plastic blanks, complete with holograms, and they'll emboss and
encode them to your specs at, I'm told, a surprisingly low price --
especially if you're a high-volume customer. A gas-pump is a perfect
place to use such a fake.

I hope to God that this is just some innocent data-entry error. More
later.

I believe the issue can be resolved with minimal
expense and trouble.

So far, you have not been a victim of ID theft.

You may have been a victim of credit card fraud.
If the FBO verifies that a card of yours was
used, just call the 800 number on the back of
the card, explain the situation and they will
cancel it and send another one immediately. Over
the past 35 years, I've had to do this twice.
No big deal, minimal hassle.

If the FBO can't verify your credit card was
used, write a letter explaining why it wasn't you,
and send it Fedex Letter to the FBO owner. Keep
a copy and then forget about it.

"John Godwin" wrote in message
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Jim Logajan wrote in
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Maybe you can clue us in on what you think "quietguy" gains by
this story?

Probably the same thing that people who send out comupter viruses or
political bull sh*t gain (whatever turns them on).


Also, an "out", or an agenda,(like Jim's), or just plain immaturity. (See
how it all fits?)

Just because Jim is clueless (Hey, Jim...what's your boy James hansen's
reason for screeching about GW (and why did you misstate that Hansen had the
climate estimartes "dead on" (your words, AIR)? What's his "reason" for
wanting Nurnberg trials for skeptics?

Putz!