Mood:
hungryI know what a title huh? Guess you can tell I had an exciting weekend. Let's start with the bad checks...
As most of you read on Friday that the check my Dad sent for my house closing bounced. When I got home from work that night the following message was on my machine. The word in Italics is what was running through my mind as I listen to the machine.
"Hey Becky...it’s your Dad. Yeah I got that...recognized your voice. You really had me going today with that check stuff. I had YOU going...pretty much ruined MY day. Well not you but your bank. That is a relief...it’s my bank's fault then? I don't know what kind of bank you took that check to. Yeah probably wasn't a good idea to switch from the Check Cashing/Bail Bonds place to the guy who sits in his Cadillac with the tinted windows in the side alley. I guess he could be a little sketchy. But they should have cashed the check. No they should have...you didn't have money in the account. It was YOUR bank who called MY bank to tell them not to cash it. My bank apparently sent me new checks back in 2004 and I didn't realize what they were for. What they are for? They are checks Dad. You use them to pay for things when you don't have cash on hand. I didn't realize that the account number was different. It is pretty much the same except the last digit. So you have been writing back checks since 2004 and no one has stopped you till now. I am pretty sure the bank sent you a letter to tell you they were changing your account. But they said your bank should have cashed that check. Anyway I have sent you a new check. Fedex'ed it overnight. Sorry about the miz up Hun but hopefully this one will work. Yeah lets hope so. Wow I just realized that in a span of 30 seconds he managed to blame 3 people and not one of those three were him. There was me, my bank, and then his bank. We are all conspiring against him. *insert evil laugh here*
I did receive the check yesterday and ran to the bank to deposit it. I just hope it will clear by Friday.
Bachelorettes:
Lennie's friend Roisin (Rosh-Sheen) is getting married next weekend. Some how I got invited to her bachelorette party. I was introduced as either Rebecca the park ranger or Rebecca, Lennie's girlfriend. We met the Hibernia to have a few drink before heading to dinner at the Red Room. Lennie walked me in so I didn't have to locate them on my own. HE then decided to stay a bit and have a drink with the girl's. He wanted to buy Roisin a drink and we made him go and ask the waitress for an Organism. LOL He was pretty embarrassed but his did it. After he finished his beer he left me alone while he went down to join the guys at Tir Na Nog. The party was being organized by this woman named Karen who is a very "I’m in control" sort of person. There were so many rules to the evening that it was hard to keep up. Roisin could only have one drink per hour. Which I thought totally defeated the purpose of the party which was to get her completely trashed and then have her do things she would do sober. No one could wear wedding rings. Apparently it scares guys off. *shrug* That wasn't a problem for me...I don't have a wedding ring. Right now those are the only two I can remember. Once we got the "Buck a Suck Lifesaver Shirt" onto the bride to be we headed over for dinner. The Red Room is a Tapas place which I have only been to once. We sit down and someone orders a pitcher of Sangria...pretty sure it was Karen. Then I looked over the menu and picked out a few items I thought sounded good. Before I knew it all this food arrived. Apparently Karen took it upon herself to order for all of us. Half the stuff wasn't appealing to me. I think I had 2 pieces of Duck, half of a half of banana, and some spinach and feta dip. I let them have all the hummus and raw fish. We then decided to head over to Bogart's for dancing and Martinis. I was STARVING at this point and thought I would just grab and appetizer over there. We got over there only to discover they had some jazz band playing and it wasn't really "dance to" music. So we headed back to the Red Room who had a DJ but there wasn't much of a dance floor. I ended up leaving around 12:30. It wasn't the wild and crazy party I had hoped for. But seeing as I didn't really know these people I behaved myself. I need to get a group of girls together one night and let loose. Anyone game?
Email Hackers:
Now if you were just skimming the rest please read this section carefully. It could save you a headache in the future.
Yesterday morning I got up completely covered in hives. I think it was all stress related seeing as I didn't eat any coconut. I decided to stay home from work and thought I could use the day to start packing for the big move. I decided to check my email to see if the seller had sent back the repair request. I logged into my yahoo account and tried to enter my password but it kept telling me that it was invalid. I must have retyped it a dozen times. I then tried to go through the Lost Password screen but it told me that the information I entered didn't match what they had on record. I then went onto Yahoo Answers and asked if anyone was having the same problem. A guy responded to me that the same thing had happened to him. He gave me a number to call and said that someone had hacked into my email account. He also said to check my Ebay account. I tried to log onto Ebay and sure enough that password wouldn't work either. I called the number the man gave me and it was for Yahoo customer service. The woman was very nice and helped me set up new passwords and protections. When I logged into my email I saw a bunch of stuff that scared me. He had read a lot of my personal emails and even started responding to one Alex sent me. He didn't get a chance to finish it so he saved it in the drafts section. I also had all these messages from Ebay Sellers in response to some emails the hacker sent them. Some of them were very nasty. So I quickly contacted the Ebay Security Folks and talked to a really sweet guy and Fabian. According to him they have had a rash of this kind of stuff lately. He said they are more than likely located in Nigeria and they were working with law enforcement and the FBI to get this resolved. Here is how the scam works. You get an email from Ebay stating that they need you to change your passwords. I did receive the email but didn't open it which seems to confuse everyone working on the case. Normally when you open the email and click on the site, you are taken to a phony Ebay site. You enter your old password and BAM they have you. They use your password to access your Ebay account and then cause havoc with it. In my case they think the message sent had spyware attached. When I would go into yahoo to enter my email login and password a "cover screen" would pop up that looked exactly like the yahoo site. But instead of https: it would read http: They would capture my email address and password and then go in and change my information and then logon to Ebay and say they lost their password so Ebay would allow them to set up a new on. Then they would go around and try to get sellers to agree to go outside of the auction on items like playstations and cell phones. They then request the seller to provide them with the seller’s paypal info. They then hack into the paypal account and reroute the money to their account somewhere in Nigeria. Here is a sample of the email sent by the person who hacked into my account.
Dear seller,
Am Thomas Marry, a Sociologist in home of art in United kingdom, I fortunately came across your Item placed on this site, with which I'm really interested in buying from you and I'm buying it for my cousin who is on vacation with his Mum, who works for the American embassy in Africa. I want to get it for him as a birthday gift, I will be paying for it via PayPal as it is faster and get approved maximum of hour. All you need to do for the payment made is just to mail me your full names and your PayPal email account where you will like to credit your money too and a valid email address for confirmation of payment. With all this once payment is made and approved. I will like it to be shipped out Via USPS Global Express 3-5 working days before the end of next week. And will make you an offer of $950 USD for the item including shipping and handling of this item. mail me back to this email address: thom_jlo_marie05@yahoo.com
I managed to get everything worked straightened out and email all the people he sent responses to. Most of them were very sorry that this happened and one said that he had fallen for a similar scam and now only accepts money orders. It is so sad that there are people out there who devise these tricks to get you to let go of your hard earned money. Ebay has a great tutorial and keeping your account safe if anyone is interested I can get the website for you.
Well the hives are mostly gone now and Friday is fast approaching. I don't know how much updating I will do between now and then so I hope everyone has a great week.
