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hearts and laserbeams is the wacky good-times art and design by me, steph calvert. i team up with robots, cupcakes, and stick people to show people art isn’t all about seriousness, missing ears, and deep thoughts; it can actually be tons of fun.

6.13.2005

god i hate it when people mess with your stuff, you know?

you've all heard about phishing, i'm sure - where crooks disguised as legitimate companies email you saying your account is in danger of going inactive if you don't follow the link in the email and update your account information.

apparently it works in other fucked up ways, too, as i just found out. i don't even know why i just went to my bank website, but i did. and someone had just put a charge from paypal through for $1,870.00.

$1,870.00?!?!?I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT $1,870.00 LOOKS LIKE!!!

so i freaked out and went to my paypal account. and there was no record of that transaction ANYWHERE. someone had made themselves look like paypal and then took money that i don't even have! what a bastard!!

i just got off the phone with my bank, and they're rectifying the problem. which is great. but why do people have to mess with your stuff!?!? GARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!

14 Comments:

Blogger Angela said...

bwah!! that's the lamest of the lame! why are people so mean? i think you should have josh track them down and beat them with his big stick.... ummmm..... you know what i mean....

6/13/2005 01:56:00 PM  
Blogger Steph Calvert said...

no, i don't, please talk some more about it...

6/13/2005 02:04:00 PM  
Blogger Steph Calvert said...

and that's the thing that totally chaps my hide, is i didn't get one of those crappy emails! i always delete the crappy emails! they skipped that step and went ahead with the taking money from my checking account!

how they got the account number i don't know...

6/13/2005 03:13:00 PM  
Blogger swirlogirl said...

fruther reflection says a rift in the time-space continuum is stealing our moneys steph!

6/13/2005 08:17:00 PM  
Blogger Steph Calvert said...

oh thank god, i was about to blame the matrix!

6/14/2005 06:40:00 AM  
Blogger swirlogirl said...

well you know that neo is such a scamp with the computer

6/14/2005 10:20:00 AM  
Blogger Steph Calvert said...

he can reshape entire worlds with a single "woah"!!!

6/14/2005 10:24:00 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I heard it was the Jews... (this is not what I believe,, Just what I heard) .... (from Steph)

6/14/2005 12:23:00 PM  
Blogger Steph Calvert said...

man i was just about the put that talking part of "get in the ring" in response to that, but then i cut and pasted it and damn that's a lotta damn hell ass swearing! i'm offended just thinking about it!

6/14/2005 12:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Uh oh, this makes me fear for MY paypal account! How can this happen?!

6/14/2005 02:14:00 PM  
Blogger Steph Calvert said...

no no no! you misunderstand!

it wasn't a paypal thing at all - it was someone POSING as paypal, going into the bank website and taking people's money. so it looked like paypal, but it wasn't.

my password is now MrUniverse. alert the people!

6/14/2005 02:39:00 PM  
Blogger swirlogirl said...

i understand perfectly fine. STEPH IS RICH!

6/15/2005 08:09:00 AM  
Blogger Steph Calvert said...

if by "rich" you mean "has three dollars til payday" then yes. yes i am.

6/15/2005 09:42:00 AM  
Blogger swirlogirl said...

LOADED!

6/15/2005 01:58:00 PM  

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